Ethics

A Bipartisan Call for Ban on Torture

By Ed Brayton

The Washington Monthly has a series of essays demanding that President Bush sign a law prohibiting all use of torture by our government. Many of those essays are written by longtime Republicans and conservatives - Bob Barr, Richard Armitage, Tom Kean, Ken Duberstein, Richard Lugar and others. Bush won't sign it, of course, but it's still valuable to stand up in a bipartisan manner and demand that he does. I can still here his last few defenders, though, screaming about how those damn liberals hate America for wanting their government not to engage in torture. Cue the STACLU crowd in 3...2....1

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).