Boris Johnson, the Mayor or London discouraged Bush from bringing his book tour across the Pond.
"Waterboarding," he wrote, "is a disgusting practice by which the victim is deliberately made to think that he is drowning. It is not some cunning new psych-ops technique conceived by the CIA. It has been used in the dungeons of dictators for centuries. It is not compatible either with the US constitution or the UN convention against torture. It is deemed to be torture in this country, and above all there is no evidence whatever that it has ever succeeded in doing what Mr Bush claimed. It does not work."
Bush and Blair's respective book tours inspire a memorable line from Tennessee Williams movie, "Night of the Iguana".The greatest tension throughout the movie occurs between Ms. Fellows, a severe, authoritarian personality and Burton, a compassionate, flawed, de-flocked priest. (his best role, perhaps?)
Ava Gardner's character arrives just in time to provide enough ammunition to take Ms. Fellows down. Burton says, "no, don't, Miss Fellows is a highly moral person, if she were ever to know the truth about herself, it would destroy her..."
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