"Torture" Cases Now Tormenting Democrats

Originally posted at 2BucksWorth. com

Just last week, even as he kicked the chair out from under the U.S. intelligence community by releasing memos regarding the interrogation of terrorists, President Obama stated that he had no interest in prosecuting officials of the previous adminstration that were involved in using or sanctioning so-called "aggressive interrogation techniques". That was last week, and with each week dawns a brand new approach in the current administration as the political winds have now shifted to a blistering hot gale out of the left.

This week, in a transparent cave-in to the far-left, the President did an about-face and called for the prosecution of certain individuals involved in what we now call "torture" (Of course, many veterans and military academy grads still call water-boarding "hazing".) Also, please keep in mind that these "torture" methods where only used on a handful of detainees...such princes among men as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who masterminded the 9/11 attacks, and Abu Zubaida, who was invloved in many foiled terror plots and has already been sentenced to death in Jordan.

This latest pronouncement by the White House unleashed a pack of ravening congressional Democrats who had been plotting such prosecutions for months, including House Speaker Pelosi and House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, who were almost giddy at the proposition of raking these neo-con fascists over the coals for all of their secret plots to torture innocent terrorists and besmirch the reputation of the U.S. as the largest, richest pansy on the globe.

But, alas, in every rush of self-indulgent euphoria there is often a catch, like the fact that Nancy Pelosi has known about the water-boarding for 7 years... and said nothing until it was too late to prevent any "torture" but just in time to make political hay out of the subject. Yes, you read that right, she knew about it. There were over 30 meetings in which this subject was discussed, one in which the cherub-like Khalid Sheik Mohammed was discussed in particular, and yet Madame Speaker (then a mere ranking member) did not bat an eye, much less go to the press or demand investigations.

One has to wonder: why the sudden case of congressional scruples now? And also one wonders how long it will take for the Dems to spin this issue now that they've been exposed for frauds who are demagoguing our national security for political gain. Again.

Nolanbuck