LIKE DeLAY, HE THINKS IT'S ALL A POLICY DIFFERENCE
He doesn't want to leave the field to his "enemies", in particular, the FBI testimony coming up. It's classic Rove-DeLay.
Except, it is really Geobbles, in two doses.
Re, "We do not torture":
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
-Joseph Goebbels
-Joseph Goebbels
Just for the record, there could well be criminal referrals for torture, despite how you view the "policy pronouncements".
WHY TORTURE IS A "NATURAL" FIT FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
As for constantly telling the American public they are under treat and need the "safeguards" of torture to remain "safe", it's Goering rather than Goebbels:“Naturally the common people don't want war... That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists [cf. also Krauthammer's Excusionism in which he singles out pacifists] for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
-- Hermann Goering
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists [cf. also Krauthammer's Excusionism in which he singles out pacifists] for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
-- Hermann Goering
And that is how you get a very generous and giving people, Americans, to behave like rats and embrace torture.
All in a days work, that, I guess ... like clockwork.
