no-brainer

I had been meaning to do a post on some torture related things bust partly due to mother nature A Daily Show beat me to it (the video is below). For the first time the Bush admin publicly admitted it waterboarded some people, and may decide to do it again. There's been a little bit of a publicity blitz because if they don't convince everyone that it was legal then the US might have trouble with getting evidence allowed in the death sentence charges for evildoing. Ironically, the State Dept. sent out a memo to all embassies instructing them to compare these cases to the Nuremburg Trials, Trials where one of the main crimes the Nazis were charged with was starting war(s) of aggression. A memorable quote from the chief US prosecutor at those trials:

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole

Dick Cheney even personally made an appearance this week in support of legalized waterboarding. You may remember him from such comments as:



This is what the guy on Fox News that is Steve Doocy had to say:



Bill O'Reilly wants to tell the candidates that waterboarding works.