Torture: A Matter of Opinion or a Question of Legality?
1/ Both Republican and Democrat-controlled Congresses have had repeated opportunities to specifically outlaw “waterboarding”. They have always declined to do so.
2/ None of the detainees in question, whether captured in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere (except for those uniformed members of the Iraqi Army captured in the first weeks of the war, and long-since either charged or released) are covered by any of the supposedly relevant Geneva Conventions.
3/ No one in Guantanamo has been tortured.
4/ The unauthorized idiocy performed by a group of un-trained jerk National Guard MPs at Abu Ghraib also was not “torture”, although it was abusive. But calamitous as it was for our image, it had absolutely nothing to do with “interrogation” or “interrogation techniques”.
5/ The only real torture in this whole trumped-up “debate” is to have to listen to the sactimonious faux-morality and reckless self-delusion of the likes of Mr. Moran.
