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This entire spectacle is so absurd it defies belief.
Our entire government has descended into a flurry of ass-covering that is so complete that we cannot even find a candidate for Attorney General that can "define" an accepted form of torture as torture. It all comes down to accountability and it is more than clear that the Bush Administration and it's enablers are dead set on not being held accountable for anything they have done.
I would love for McCain to stand up and read Nance's letter from the NY Daily news today in the Senate chambers and then just state that he agrees--- and ask the rest of those hopeless, spineless congressmen and women to join him in refusing to vote for this AG nominee. Joan is right-- if he can't call waterboarding for what it is, he needs to go back to retirement.
It's an amazing thing, my late father was a constitutional attorney, he died suddenly a few years ago at a relatively young age and for the first time I am somewhat at peace with losing him because what is happening in this country would have killed him in a much more painful fashion. Disgusting.
JT
