There's been a number of DailyKos diaries on this subject.

Here's two comments from this one:

"This has been going through my head
over and over again. How did we get to the place where we are debating the definition of torture? How is it that we are at a place where people accept the fact that our president uses the airwaves to defend his ability to change that definition.
Torture. More and more I find myself staring out the window, shaking my head."
by CJB on Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 04:23:13 PM PDT

"The Jews couldn't believe what was happening...
...to them either in 1930's Germany.   That's why too many didn't leave in time.
Anywhere, anytime, our world can be turned upside down by a maniac --or many. Although we should endeavor to enjoy our lives, we can't get complacent -- we have to be psychologically ready for anything.
by dov12348 on Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 04:23:55 PM PDT"

-snip-

I maintain that enslaved Black people in the 18th & 19th century US South and elsewhere also lived with the knowledge that "anywhere, anytime their world could be turned upside down...". And these people, my ancestors, had to be psychologically ready for anything. Some of them were brave enough to risk their lives and flee to the North or to Canada. Unfortunately, now, there is nowhere safe to run.
And we all-Black, White, Brown, Red, Yellow-are in this nightmare together.

Who would have believed that The United State's president would be openly, vigorously campaigning for torture and for the continuation of secret prisons throughout the world that he once denied existed? It's like we're living in the twilight zone.