The Politics Of Torture (An Examination of the 'Blame America First' Syndrome)

Granddaddy Long Legs ^

[cchandler]

I have written several times about the striking lack of context and proportion provided by the antagonists and opportunists who throw the term torture around with such reckless disregard for true tragedy and human suffering.

Liberal activists and politicians constantly rely on the term torture and the imagery it conjures to depict the American military and the Bush Administration as a rogue, wretched regime that is not dissimilar from Saddam Hussein's.

How often have we heard the flunkies of history casually drop lines like these:

"[W]e've heard that the President has ignored the rule of law in order to spy on Americans. We've also found that the White House [has] given the green light to torture, even though it violated our laws and made our troops less safe."

- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid

"As several official investigations have found, these techniques soon "migrated" from Guantanamo to U.S. field units in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading to hundreds of cases of torture, homicide and other abuse, and a shameful stain on the international reputation of the United States."

- Senator John Kerry

"[Bush's war in Iraq] the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country.....This is just as bad as six million Jews being killed. The whole world knew it and they were quiet about it, because it wasn't their ox that was being gored."

- Representative Charlie Rangel

These are just a few of the countless examples of the opportunist rhetoric that has come to define the Democratic Party's politicization of the ugliness of war for their own partisan advancement......

[sono]

The Anything ButLoyal Opposition still can't get over the election of 2000. I wonder if Rutherford B. Hayes had similar difficulties.