Ann Coulter had a good column on this topic this week.

As for me, I would be first in line to agreeing to better treatment for terrorist detainees if it could be showed that we could also get the information to save American lives and if our even MORE benign treatment would also result in better treatment for Americans who fall prisoner to terrorists.

I heard McCain say that waterboarding was specifically banned. It was that aggressive measure which caused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to cough up the details of the plot to destroy the Library Tower in LA.

How many lefties in LA are alive to curse George W. Bush today that would otherwise have died in that attack if we had not learned about it in time.

And of course we all know that had this attack been succesful, the same lefties who are bleating how how evil our “torture” is would be first in line to ask why Bush didn’t protect them.

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Curt, as usual, you hit the nail on the head with this post. I think the big difference here is that President Bush was THINKING BIG! Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is incredibly vague. What President Bush was pushing for was not a RE-INTERPRETATION but merely a definition. And at the worst, it would have been a STARTING POINT for other countries WHO ARE SIGNATORY to the Geneva Conventions to either agree with or disagree.

Why all the flack about the Geneva Conventions anyway? These barbaric 7th Century cave dwellers that we’re dealing with here are not only NOT SIGNATORY to the Geneva Conventions, I doubt they could even understand them.

McCain blows smoke about how “redefining” the Geneva Conventions may “endanger” our troops. Well, Senator, point out to me ONE INSTANCE where al Qaeda showed any of our troops mercy because we were signatory to the Geneva Conventions.

As usual, you’ll come up SHORT!

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