The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us

Okay, right off the bat this op-ed loses any semblance of credibility by stating "By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib more than three years ago." Except for that whole judicial punishment of everyone involved including the general in charge thing. Notice how this intellectual giant does exactly what he accuses the Bush administration of doing: refusing to define "torture." He gives a brief mention of "hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation." Granted, I (and most people) would consider hypothermia torture-- but that is a long way from cold rooms, meant to make a prisoner miserable without causing actual harm (that or I've been "tortured" working on the interstate setting concrete barriers at 2 a.m. in January.) And I'll consider the last two "torture" if Amnesty International begins to come down on US military basic training, college fraternities, and airline flight. Seriously.

"We can continue to blame the Bush administration for the horrors of Iraq — and should." As usual, Saddam and Al Queda get a free pass. Dude must have seen Fahrenheit 9/11 with the kids flying kites in Baghdad. The rest of this op-ed is so full of exaggerations and out-right lies that it's almost a parody of leftist mindless claptrap. He hits all the notes: Abu Gharaib (these people must have danced a jig when those pictures were made public,) Blackwater, Bush Lied, Darfur, taxes. And he finishes it off with comparing the hardened, Paradise-seeking Jihadist with high ranking Nazi officials in terms of interrogation. Because I'm sure the Jordanian picked up in Iraq after a failed suicide bombing attempt is completely amenable to a friendly game of ping-pong with the infidel. Frakkin' A, there is a world of gorram difference between the Germans of WWII with the terrorists of today, and if the idiot writing that op-ed is too stupid or morally bankrupt to be able to tell the difference...