We know why there will be no further discussion on these. One, it involves congress and their own decisions and two if there were, then at some point Obama would have to make a list of what is torture to him and what isn’t.
I said yesterday that apparently the torture hasn’t stopped at GITMO according to detainees there.
Scott makes a similar connection
And what of the allegations the alleged torture has been worse and more frequent since Obama took office? Water boarding versus hands-on physical abuse is more disconcerting, don’t you think? Of course the source is al-Jazeerah but liberals always took their word when they complained while Bush was in office so I guess they are a legitimate source in their eyes.
ps – read his whole post
Jeff at Redstate notes the co-opting of words in this discussion and again, you would get down to this administration having to make their own little list of what is torture and what is not.
Who would really want the responsibility for that list eh?
Co-opting the word “torture” to include methods far less offensive than the majority of interrogation techniques I underwent in military SERE training isn’t a victory for moralists and humanitarians in any form; rather, it’s an Orwellian perversion of a word that once had meaning by those who have spent the last eight years on constant lookout for some greviance to hold against a president whose mere existence they resented.
Go read his post too. It’s worth it.
I’m not at all sure what Obama has to gain by leaking the “horribleness of Bush” and yet not prosecuting it.
Showing his good guy credentials??
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