In her column earlier this month, right-wing pundit Mona Charen uses the discovery of an insurgent torture chamber in Iraq to claim that all the fuss over the CIA using waterboarding (pumping water down your throat to make you think you’re drowning) is overrated—the blowtorch, the knives, the stuff they were doing in this chamber, that’s REAL torture! To say we’re doing anything comparable is an insult to America!
Isn’t that lovely? It used to be Americans could say “We’re the good guys.” Now we have right-wingers who claim saying “We’re not as bad as al-Qaida in Iraq!”is the same thing.
As John McCain says, opposing torture — whether it’s waterboarding, stress positions or sodomizing a prisoner with a light stick — isn’t about them, it’s about us. We’re supposed to be better than that.

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