Why does Bush want to torture?

We know it does not work. Krugman asks it in the NYT yesterday and comes up with "to show that he can" - as a major thrust of the Cheney administration has been to expand presidential power.
Let me add - Bush and Cheney and Rice are sadists. That's why torture appeals to them. It really is that simple.

AND they are, no doubt, building the same bullshit case against Iran, with the same tactics. So next year when they begin the attack - we shall hear the same bullshit on CNN that Hitchens and Judas Miller and the rest of the whores and liars and idiots spewed the last time.