Something tells me this Judge Bybee must be perceived as a proper liberal on the ninth circus, considering how much of the MSM (beginning with the WaPo’s frontpage piece last week) is desperately trying to bail him out and run interference for him.
Nice to see an actual newspaper editorial make a point I’ve been making for a long time: that the Al Qaeda ‘irregulars’ are subject to summary execution under the Geneva Conventions, so even if it’s interrupted by the occasional session of water begin poured up their noses, or sitting in a box with a caterpillar, getting three hots a day (not to mention prayer rugs and copies of the Qu’ran) is better than we are obliged to give them.
I just heard John Mc Cain on Face the Nation and I wanted to barf. He continues to cite the Geneva Convention as a reason not to do what we did with some of the captured terrorists. When is he and some of the like minded pundits going to read the Geneva Conventions. The treatment of POW’s under the conventions applies to uniformed soldiers of Nation States. It specifically excludes non uniformed personnel engaging in hostile acts on the battle field and implies that they may be treated as “spies”. The terrorists that we picked up are not covered by the Geneva Conventions and never have been. The way they treat our men if captured is to torture and kill them. This argument about Waterboarding as torture is madness. I am typing this now so I don’t have to hear the other interview on Face the Nation with Patrick Leahy who based on his past leaking of intelligence ought to be prosecuted.
Water board Obama and all who love him.
Seems to me much of the talk about prosecution of the guys who wrote the “torture memos” is rather rich coming from Congress. Congress wrote the laws which these guys tried to interpret.
It is perfectly obvious to anyone but a congressman that interrogation techniques are found on a spectrum, with polite questioning on one end and the various medieval techniques we think of when we hear the word “torture” on the other. The attorneys were asked to spell out more precisely where along this line American interrogators should stop, given the laws as passed by Congress.
Now Congress is at least to some extent p*ssed off that the attorneys interpreted the law as read, not as Congress now thinks it should have read. If the law is poorly worded and doesn’t spell out precisely enough what constitutes torture, isn’t that the fault of Congress?
The liberals anguished daily over the US casualty figures flowing in from Iraq. We were treated to all sorts of reports about not just the number of brave soldiers who died, but of the thousands who were maimed and severely injured.
Most of those injuries came from roadside bombs and attacks by terrorists posing as civilians.....those attacks were organized by men just like those “interrogated”.
I guess liberals really didn’t care about all those dead soldiers after all.
Wow. Very good editorial.
I don't see this happening in my lifetime. For two reasons:
1) Richard Simmons is more of a fighter than the Michael Steele GOP.
2) MaoObama & the Dhimmocrats are cementing their perpetual hold on power. Watch for a repeal of the 22nd Amendment. Why else would he meet with Chavez? He needed some pointers.