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Congress should pass a law criminalizing waterboarding or, better, any act that is designed to make a person believe that he is dying and state unequivocally that it is never to be used under any circumstances (i. e., the “ticking bomb scenario”). Such a definition would cover waterboarding and any other act that could be described as a mock execution. Then there would be no question about the issue.

Makes me wonder why they haven’t done so in the 10 months that the Democrats have been in the majority in both houses of the legislature. Sure Bush would veto it. Heck, it may not gain more than a few Republican votes but think of it. Such an act would force both the Republicans in Congress and the president to affirmatively vote for what the Democrats have called clearly and unquestionably torture. It seems to me that the Democrats want to have their cake (make an issue of torture to use against Republicans) and eat it (not have to be held responsible for criminalizing an act that could, in certain circumstances, save hundreds of thousands of American lives and the American economy to boot) too.

I mean, even if Mukasy doesn’t make it out of committee. They’ve got to know that no nominee put forth by Bush is going to agree to call Bush a war criminal. If that’s the standard, we’ll spend the rest of the Bush term without an attorney general.

Now that I think about it, that might be the point.

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