[Rummyfan]

More from The Greatest Living Writer......

[Rummyfan]

Question: What does Dick Cheney think of waterboarding?

He's in favor of it. He was in favor of it then, he's in favor of it now. He doesn't think it's torture, and he supports having it on the books as a vital option. On his recent TV appearances, he sometimes gives the impression he would not be entirely averse to performing a demonstration on his interviewers

LOL!

[mylife]

Let's just cut to the chase and handcuff Cheney and Pelosi to a radiator in a CIA safe house somewhere.

Don't sugar coat it Mark....

[FastCoyote]

“More from The Greatest Living Writer......”

I write a fair amount, and I’d have to agree with you. Lines like this are absolutely priceless:

“Over at The New York Times, the elderly schoolgirl Maureen Dowd”

[Carley]

By Monday all the media will be back writing about pot pies.

/s/

[skr]

Ping for later

[Rummyfan]

The alternative – that Speaker Pelosi is a contemptible opportunist hack playing the cheapest but most destructive kind of politics with key elements of national security – is, of course, unthinkable.

Hmmmm.... Let me think about that.

Steyn ping!

[DManA]

I like Steyn more and more.

[Aquinasfan]

More from The Greatest Living Writer......

At least the greatest living conservative polemicist. And all without benefit of a college education.

[mylife]

Does waterboarding so outrage the Muslim world that it drives millions of young men into the dark embrace of al-Qaida? No. But the media fetishization of U.S. "torture" is certainly "a force multiplier" for Muslims who don't so much "hate" as despise America, not least for its self-loathing.

Right on the mark!

[brianr10]

A good question from the press would be: When did it dawn on you that you could use waterboarding as a political issue with which to bludgeon the Bush Administration?

[McLynnan]

He really nails it here:

It's the Miss USA standard of political integrity: Carrie Prejean and Barack Obama have the same publicly stated views on gay marriage. But the politically correct enforcers know that Barack doesn't mean it, so that's okay, whereas Carrie does, so that's a hate crime. In the torture debate, Pelosi is Obama and Dick Cheney is Carrie Prejean. Dick means it, because to him this is an issue of national security. Nancy doesn't, because to her it's about the shifting breezes of political viability.

[stop_fascism]

Pelosi wanted the CIA to inject the Gitmo Guys with Botulism, but they refused. They didn’t want to cause permanent damage like facial paralysis.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Senator Feinstein says airily that no reasonable person would hold dear Nancy to account for what she supported all those years ago. But it's OK to hold Cheney or some no-name Justice Department backroom boy to account?

Steyn pours the water on the RAT noses--and they choke.

[autumnraine]

Greatest writer ever, brilliant, to the point and I can’t help but read in his oh so sexy accent/voice.

[gibsosa]

bump

[milwguy]

He is up there, but I think Victor Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell give him a run for his money. Steyn does have an acerbic witty nature to his writings that always leave me smiling.

[roses of sharon]

My favorite.

In effect, the senator is saying waterboarding was acceptable in 2002, but not by 2009. The waterboarding didn't change, but the country did. It was no longer America's war but Bush's war. And it was no longer a bipartisan interrogation technique that enjoyed the explicit approval of both parties' leaderships, but a grubby Bush-Cheney-Rummy war crime.

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

ping for later

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

But it's OK to hold Cheney or some no-name Justice Department backroom boy to account?

Well, sure. It's the Miss USA standard of political integrity: Carrie Prejean and Barack Obama have the same publicly stated views on gay marriage. But the politically correct enforcers know that Barack doesn't mean it, so that's okay, whereas Carrie does, so that's a hate crime. In the torture debate, Pelosi is Obama and Dick Cheney is Carrie Prejean. Dick means it, because to him this is an issue of national security. Nancy doesn't, because to her it's about the shifting breezes of political viability.

Excellent observation by Steyn.

[mulligan]

It is torture every time she speaks, and double torture if you have to view the person.