Torture Bush

The following is one of those (again) commentaries with the right words at the right time. This really tickled me...

From Wonkette and The Washington Post Blog.

Writing on the Washington Post’s blog thing this weekend, columnist Eugene Robinson came up with a reportedly good way to determine if the various “we don’t torture” torture methods should really be considered torture by American courts: Torture Bush & Alberto! But only with the approved non-torture torture methods.

If we haven’t actually put anybody on the rack or pulled out his fingernails, we haven’t committed torture.

If that’s true, then shouldn’t the administration officials — starting with the president himself — who authorized these techniques be willing to experience them first-hand? Until George W. Bush can say, “Hey, I’ve been waterboarded, and it wasn’t so bad,” or Alberto Gonzales can say, “To tell the truth, spending those three days naked in a freezing-cold cell wasn’t painful or anything,” then I’ll continue to believe that history will condemn this administration for a shocking lapse of moral judgment. Bush will be remembered as the president who tried to justify torture.