Our President, the Torturer?

I haven't had time to post much lately, but when I read that our President is definitely a torturer, I have to take note.

Dan Froomkin wrote in his column today:

"President Bush yesterday asserted that he would never nominate anyone for attorney general who would be willing to state that waterboarding is torture -- so, if the Senate doesn't approve Michael Mukasey, "that would guarantee that America would have no attorney general during this time of war."

If you read on, you see that the President, a man of faith--but what faith I have no idea anymore--is definitely...there's no speculating about this anymore...comfortable with waterboarding. Donna Leinwand, of USA TODAY, wrote of the small press conference the President gave: "He criticized Democrats for making Mukasey's confirmation contingent on his declaring illegal 'waterboarding,' a controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning. Interrogation methods used by the CIA 'are safe, they are lawful, and they are necessary,' Bush said."

Froomkin's reaction: "There is, of course, no attorney general right now because Bush's last choice spectacularly self-destructed. And many members of Bush's own party are quite comfortable stating that waterboarding is torture. It's not exactly a controversial position, seeing as waterboarding has been an iconic form of torture since the Spanish Inquisition.

"But it's not Bush's style to back down, especially when a key element of his radical and unprecedented expansion of executive power is at stake.

"Instead, Bush has learned that the higher he ratchets up the rhetoric, especially if he can accuse his critics of being weak on terror, the more likely Congressional Democrats are to fold. He's simply counting on that happening again."

There's a link to the full text of Bush's comments in Froomkin's column.

I'm ashamed of our President and everyone who supports him.