Ah, the nobility of honourable people who force themselves to degrade themselves in this way, once they have been told to do so by their superiors.

Heinrich Himmler understood this so well when in 1943 he told SS butchers "To have gone through this, and at the same time, apart from exceptions caused by human weaknesses, to have remained decent, that has made us hard. This is a chapter of glory in our history which has never been written, and which never shall be written.

It could have been Dick Cheney talking...