Why Churchill Opposed Torture

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Why Churchill Opposed Torture
The British leader understood what President Bush does not: When it comes to prisoners of war, what goes around comes around.
October 2, 2006


LAST WEEK, both houses of Congress approved a bill — the Military Commissions Act — that would permit the indefinite, extrajudicial incarceration of terrorist suspects and their interrogation using torture in all but name. Does that sound shocking? What's really shocking is that this was a compromise measure.

When President Bush signs this bill into law, a category of detainees will come into existence: "unlawful enemy combatants" who, regardless of their nationality, will be liable to summary arrest.

Those detained will not have the right to challenge their imprisonment by filing an application for a writ of habeas corpus. When — or rather if — they are tried, it will be by military tribunals. Classified evidence may be withheld from the accused if the tribunal judges see fit.

My old friend Andrew Sullivan — who used to think he was a conservative until President Bush came along — calls it a bill to "legalize tyranny."

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ferguson2oct02,0,4615277.column?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

[Swamp Rat]

1. "... a bill to legalize tyranny."

[tocqueville]

2. if the Dems had been whistling the theme of "The Bridge over River Kwai"

everytime a Republican argued for the "torture bill", maybe it had never passed

[Jack Rabbit]

3. K & R

Andrew Sullivan should continue call himself a conservative.

It is Mr. Bush who is something else.