It's Not Torture, 'Cause We Say So

This is just an incredible story from the Post on how the Bush Administration does not use torture.

Here's a little from the story:

In testimony before a House subcommittee, Steven G. Bradbury, the acting chief of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, spelled out how the administration regulated the CIA's use of rough tactics and offered new details of how simulated drowning was used to compel disclosures by prisoners suspected of being al-Qaeda members.

The method was not, he said, like the "water torture" used during the Spanish Inquisition and by autocratic governments into the 20th century, but was subject to "strict time limits, safeguards, restrictions." He added, "The only thing in common is, I think, the use of water."

Yeah that's the thing to take away from that. Because we are such a great democratic state that doesn't torture because we simulate drowning people with strict time limits that makes it ok.

I have to say the more that comes out about what was done the more reprehensible it becomes. The lengths that members of this administration go to try and "prove" the U.S. does not torture only makes the government look worse and worse. I wonder how we'll react when someone uses a similar technique against American soldiers. I'd like to see an administration official justify it then.