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Waterboarding is nothing but an act of pure sadism. Those who permit and enable it in any way are sick sadists. To express "reservations" about Mukasey's de-dacto support of this sadistic act is morally as pathetic and bankrupt as expressing reservations about the Nazi atrocities. Instead of this wimpy, halfhearted whimper, there should have been a unified, unequivocal statement from the Democratic caucus that Mukasey's nomination was dead because of his refusal to unequivocally condemn a sadistic and highly criminal act sanctioned by the US government.
