Thursday, December 27, 2007

Tortured Democrats

It didn't get much attention, but last May U.S. troops unearthed an even grislier site, an al Qaeda torture chamber in Baghdad itself. When they entered, the soldiers found [redacted: truly gruesome] and many more. It's useful to be reminded of what real torture looks like when the Democrats in Washington are working themselves into a froth about CIA interrogation tapes.
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So now we will have an inquiry into whether the CIA has violated the law by destroying tapes it was under no obligation to make in the first place; concerning an interrogation technique that at the very worst involved making three notorious terrorists think, for a few seconds, that they were drowning.
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I have severe doubts as to whether waterboarding constitutes torture. But I am certain the unceasing attention it receives and the eagerness of many Democrats to indict the Bush administration damaged America's image more than anything the CIA has done. [well, until the insane NIE report] I say this for two reasons:[...]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071226/COMMENTARY/485798050

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