Will We Be Torturers?

Kind of hard to tell. Can't tell from the Post story...though it reminds us that Republicans still seem to be putting the War Against Democrats ahead of the "War" on "Terror." The Times story is even more depressing. Lefty blogs are howling and barking about all this, but I can't really take most of them seriously anymore. The rightiy blogs...well, they continue to dream of W riding across the plains on a unicorn, wind blowing in his hair, until he sweeps them off their feet and they both ride bareback (ahem) into the sunset...he's dressed, of course, in his Commander Codpiece jumpsuit from the Mission Accomplished photo-op...you know, the one that (according to righty hero G. G. Liddy) makes the most of his "male attributes"...

So anybody know where we turn for the straight dope here?

I guess I worry that Drum is right (as is so often the case). Bush basically gets to use his...if we can hyperbolically dignify it with the term...judgment about what "interrogation techniques" we get to use. This given that he's demonstrated approximately the worst judgment of anyone not currently wearing a locating device on his ankle.

So maybe the barking, howling lefty blogs are, in fact, right about this one. Irrational though they may be, Bush is so bad that they end up getting it right a lot (um, let's avert our mental gaze from the Plame affair for the time being...). (And please to ignore my own now-discredited ranting about that as well...)

See? See what all this crap is turing me into? I'm becoming just another half-assed, invective-spewing dumbass who throws in a few links, bitches, insults the other side, and then calls it a post.

I gotta stop blogging.

But since I'm still doing it right now:

Good morning, fellow torturers! Welcome to the United States of Torture! Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses who need a right good waterboarding.

We have met the enemy, and they are...well, the rest is left as an exercise for the reader.