the torture party

Gonzales defenders are torture apologists and no one should give them an ounce of respect. Always to be counted on to be fascist apologists the Wall Street Journal yesterday wrote that Gonzales' memo was okay because times have changed since 2001. Written like a corporate lawyer (I mean Gonzales) the op ed brazenly dodges the most significant issue - the rewrite of the memo - and Gonzales' pledge today at the confirmation meeting - totally ignore the important issue: namely Gonzales asserted that torturing "special" people isn't against the law. They simply claim the Geneva convention does not apply. This is the problem of course, you can claim to follow the Geneva convention if people you want to torture fall outside of it.

The sad partisan bullshit about this whole issue is that all of the people writing apologies for Gonzales know this, and are willingly taking part in a legal dodge/disinformation campaign. This is bad for America, and they should know better.