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The Inquisition Is Over: Reject Mike Mukasey

by Bob Betzen

water_torture.jpgThe current nominee for Attorney General can’t say if water boarding is torture. It’s mind boggling. For a long time people joked about how the Bush administration wants to take our country back to the Dark Ages. Apparently the joke is on us. Of course water boarding is torture. It refers to holding someone’s head under water until they believe that they are about to drown. If the inquisitor’s timing is a bit off, the subject does drown.

Senator Leahy is holding up Mike Mukasey’s nomination for Attorney General until he can satisfactorily answer the question of whether water boarding is torture. The Senate should reject the nomination forthwith. If the guy doesn’t know if water boarding is torture, then he has no business serving as the chief law enforcement officer in the United States.

It would be one thing if President Bush had earned the benefit of the doubt when it comes to cabinet level nominations, but that’s not the case. Bush has never been anything but dishonest and hyper-partisan in his dealings with Congress. The Senate’s job is to give advice and consent on nominations. Since Bush never seeks advice from Senate Democrats, there’s no reason for them to roll over and consent to Bush’s nominee just because he tells them to.

Senators like John McCain, Lindsey Graham and other former military officers oppose the use of water boarding for obvious reasons. Sometimes our soldiers are captured and we want them to be treated humanely. If we torture prisoners that we’ve captured on the battlefield, our enemies will do the same to our soldiers. We’ve already seen this in Iraq. The Senate needs to just say no.

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Posted in Crime and Punishment on October 30th, 2007

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