I had heard this story a long time ago -- true or not, I don't know.. just passing it along.
Lest we forget: “Studies have also shown that children who torture animals are at higher risk than others to grow up to use violence against people. Many adults who have committed serial murders or mass violence tortured animals as children.” Then of course there’s this: "... as a child, Bush and his friends used to torture animals for pleasure, ... 'We were terrible to animals,' recalled [Bush's boyhood friend Terry] Throckmorton, laughing … thousands of frogs would come out. 'Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them … Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.' … while an undergrad at Yale University, Bush was a president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, which engaged in initiation procedures described as 'sadistic and obscene,' including burning pledges with a hot branding iron. When the fraternity's sadistic rituals were uncovered by Yale authorities, Bush, then a Yale senior, defended the practice to The New York Times in an article that appeared on November 7, 1967, saying that the wound was 'only a cigarette burn.' … after becoming governor of Texas, Bush oversaw the executions of 131 people. In 1998, Bush signed the death warrant for a woman named Karla Tucker, who was executed on February 3, 1998. ... Bush mocked Tucker's last-minute pleas for clemency … Bush imitated Tucker with an exaggerated whimper, saying, 'Please don't kill me.'" Sooo, don’t tell me "we don’t torture"!!!
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/comm...s-daily-buzzflash-minute-for-december-12-2007