Tuesday, May 5, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Neo-Neocon: Obama's Churchill 'torture' quote - '...Churchill presided over a military machine that generally regarded torture as unnecessary, unethical, unproductive and un-British...Well, you know what? So do we, and so did the Bush administration. That's why the so-called "torture memos" so carefully limited alleged "torture" to waterboarding (which was not considered torture), and even that was only allowed under extremely restricted circumstances...'
