Bush defends waterboarding, using the dead of July 7, 2005 as an excuse. He also says that the US still has the moral high ground, that Iraq was the right thing to do, and that history will, in the end, judge him kindly.
I gotta say, I'd love to be on the mix of high-class halucinogens that he's on; I mean, he may only have 48 weeks left in the job, but that...he's totally deluded. It's the only rational explanation - though I realise that trying to apply rational filters to that steaming pile of smug, self-satisfied justifications for monstrous actions is an impossible task.
And of course the sad thing is, no matter what party takes the presidency next, no matter what they say on the campaign trail, the next one won't be a whit different. And that the journalists, like the BBC guy that did this interview, will continue to ask craven, enabling questions, for fear of being cut out of 'the loop'.
(And I feel better for having got that off my chest.)
I meant 'lost it', in the sense that at least some of the time (when he read the script prepared by his handlers), he was capable of a vague sense of tact - every so often. Apparently, now he's lost even that. Which is odd, as you'd think he'd dial down the crazy so as to protect his precious 'legacy'.