The Torture Apologists Have Doomed Their Argument

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What I have been hearing repeatedly this week from the Rabid Right is, 'These techniques are not torture'. Setting aside the absurdity that we have entered the realm of arguing torture based on nuance, their argument is doomed.

They are defending the practice and have drawn a line. They claim waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, even hanging from the ceiling by your wrists does not constitute torture. We have drawn the line with the Geneva Convention and the Army Field Manual. Our position won't change. For the apologists, as more information is released and declassified, they will be in the uncomfortable position of dropping their argument or defending beatings, forced sodomy, rape, limb breaking, murder and more. It is indefensible.

The way this has unfolded, they have built a wall. Still declaring, 'America does not torture, we interrogate enhanceable.' Their position will have to change.

As more information is released to the public, do you think Sean Hannity will offer himself to be sodomized with objects and raped on camera to prove how benign it is?