Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Politics - And Waterboarding
So, Congress passes laws that indicate one belief, and then for political purposes, they posture with a different belief.
No surprises there! It's really quite transparent...
No surprises there! It's really quite transparent...
At the National Review Online, the Editors discuss it:
"On that score, Congress has twice in the last three years enacted legislation on coercive interrogation. On both occasions it could have prohibited waterboarding — and on both it declined to do so. In the 1990s, the United States ratified treaties that ban not only torture but 'cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment' (CID). These terms are inherently vague, and Congress has refused to clarify them."
