The Democrats Tortured Torture Explanations

Besides being a brutal form of punishment or interrogation, torture also means to twist, pervert, or distort the facts. Certainly, over the last 4 or 5 weeks, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Eric Holder are all guilty of 'torturing' a lot of the facts about torture.

At his last prime time press conference, Barack Obama tried to hold Britain up to the light as a shining example of a country that doesn't torture. To make that point, he referenced the written works of Winston Churchill. But, as I have shown in this blog (See my blog entry: "What Obama Is Missing On Torture"), Barack's comments are blatantly false because, from World War II and even up until the most recent years, Britain has been pretty active in all forms of torture.

Then, there's Obama's AG, Eric Holder. His 'holier than thou' attitude towards torture seems to be somewhat misplaced when, in fact, he was the deputy AG during the Clinton Administration when rendition and the subsequent torture of Al Qaeda captives was practiced quite often. Obviously, from a hearing yesterday (See Full Story), Mr. Holder was quite involved in the rendition process. This is apparently something that this top cop of our country has conveniently forgotten while he's been pushing to go after lawyers in the Bush Administration that gave legal opinions on harsh interrogation techniques.

Finally, let me introduce you to the Democrat who's the best piece of work when it comes to torturing the torture issue: Ms. Nancy Pelosi; Speaker of the House. Over the last few weeks, she's gone from completely knowing nothing to admitting that she knew of the techniques but didn't think they would use them; even though in a briefing in 2002, she was told that EIT (Enhanced Interrogation Techniques) had already been used (See Full Story). This is the same Pelosi who claimed that the Catholic Church was uncertain about abortion. A point that the Pope, himself, had to give her a dressing down on.

Whether Obama likes it or not, torture has been a practice going back to the Clinton years. To the best of anyone's knowledge, it stopped in 2006 under Bush. It is obvious that a lot of people, including a lot of Democrats, knew of the practice but didn't raise the red flag about what was being done until Obama got in office. I think that Obama made a large and very naive mistake by opening this can of worms. Now, if punishment of Bush people is pursued, then there are going to be a lot of Democrats who should also be punished. But, with that possibility looming, I think we will find that the Obama gang and the the Democrats in Congress will just quietly let this whole topic fade away without any investigations and, certainly, without any previously planned show trials and prosecutions. That's how politics works.