They Tortured With Good Will - Andrew Sullivan

[jefferson_dem]

They Tortured With Good Will

Condi Rice tries to walk back her statement that if Bush authorized something, it was not illegal. She says instead - in a cosy conversation with Leon Wieseltier - that the president ordered that interrogation go to the limits of the legal. My own sense, from a few off-the-record conversations as well, is that president Bush simply said: do what you have to do, but make sure it's legal. Cheney ran with that. Bush meant it as cover. He needed legal cover to torture in a systematic way. And, because this was the Bush administration, they did what the great leader asked. Even though it was, in fact, impossible. And was impossible. And so America became a torturing country. And Rice sat by and let it happen. And now wants to be in polite society.

I do not believe in being polite to war criminals. I believe in prosecuting them.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/they-tortured-with-good-will.html

[CJCRANE]

1. One of Condi's flunkeys

said there was no "intent" to torture therefore it was legal.

[mix]

2. Right-wing sophistry

I am drawn to the idea that if there will be no legal repercussions for these fiends, at least they might be shamed and shunned from polite society.

[Supersedeas]

3. it is easy to make heros of RW hacks -- look at G Gordon Lilly and Ollie North

they still mingle with the same society and never wanted to be in lower class polite crowds. Steady earnings and a Carribean tax shelter, and the RW yes boys and girls are good to go.