Torture Us Not, John Aravosis
John Aravosis over at AMERICAblog has accused former CIA director Michael Hayden of cowardice.
Hayden has criticized Obama’s senseless release of the CIA “torture” memos:
“What we have described for our enemies in the midst of a war are the outer limits that any American would ever go to in terms of interrogating an al Qaeda terrorist. That’s very valuable information,” Hayden said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
“By taking [certain] techniques off the table, we have made it more difficult — in a whole host of circumstances I can imagine — for CIA officers to defend the nation,” he said.
Aravosis gets snitty:
Yeah, that’s cute. Except that the US agreed a long time ago that torture was off the table. And even John McCain is opposed to torture. But of course, Hayden has a more personal reason for opposing the release of information pertaining to the torture of foreign prisoners. Mr. Hayden, I suspect, isn’t very interested in spending the rest of his life in some foreign prison as a war criminal.
Yes, I’m sure Hayden is shaking in his boots.
Eerily similar to the Global Warming topic, all of Liberalati has declared the debate over where the line between interrogation and torture is drawn to be SO over. They sure to love to be in charge of definitions, don’t they? Take a look at Wikipedia’s waterboarding entry – it has Liberalati fingerprints all over it. Who are those “legal experts, politicians, war veterans, intelligence officials, military judges, and human rights organizations”, anyway? Phew! I’m smelling the putrid stench of “consensus.”
So, following in Aravosis’ footsteps, I’ve decided that I am the ultimate authority on what constitutes torture. I thusly declare reading Aravosis’ blog, AMERICAblog, to be a form of torture. I call on the Obama administration to finish taking over the internet and then shut down Aravosis’ blog due to the long term psychological damage his writing inflicts on those who choose to read it.
Huh, so this is what it feels like to be a modern liberal opinion leader? I feel almost god-like and I’m starting to think that I am.
ThinkingMeat · Ben Grivno: hilariously inept, blatantly dishonest said,
April 21, 2009 at 10:15 am
[...] Ben Grivno is yet another wingnut with a blog. He calls his blog The Crowbar, apparently in honor of the tool that was used on his head, resulting in the peculiarly malformed thought processes he is so proud to put on display. In a predictable post that pooh-poohs the whole idea that there could be anything the US does that could be called ‘torture’, he states: [...]