Monday, August 31, 2009

"Verschärfte Vernehmung"

From Andrew Sullivan comes this scathing indictment of the neocon position on torture. Max Boot has now taken to calling torture of suspected terrorists "aggressive interrogation of captured terrorists."

This happened in another era, not too long ago. During WWII the Germans had other names for what they did (and what they did served as the model for what we did to detainees under the Bush administration.

Sure there are some who proudly wear their sadism and need for revenge as badges of honor, but really what they are are marks of cowardice.

An artist in Los Angeles recently put a Hitler mustache on Obama during the debate for health-care reform, seemingly to equate the end-of-life counseling language in the Obama bill to something Nazis did to evaluate the worthiness of human life. In response, I present you with Der Tortuhrer.


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