Torture Memos and Such

I just finished watching this week's Real Time with Bill Maher and one of the topics for discussion was the past administration's support for torture. I love to see the 'publicans go from saying we don't torture, to then saying there were a few bad apples, to now saying "Well... we did torture but at least it worked." I imagine there have been times when torture did work. In fact, I would guarantee it. But unfortunately it's just not worth it. The saddest thing was to find out the frequency with which it was done. I mean waterboarding somebody once would be bad but waterboarding them hundreds of times is absolutely shameful. If it didn't work the first time, it probably isn't going to. I agree with something Howard Dean said on the show, he said that without America being a country of high moral character, where's the arguement that we are saving people from bad dictators under bad conditions? If we torture and do the same thing those dictators do, then we aren't liberating people, like the citizens of Iraq for instance, we are just conquering them, and that's something the United States shouldn't be in the business of doing. I also find it funny that a party that prides itself on its moral underpinnings the way the Republican party does, it's awfully hypocritical for them to then go out and condone something like torture. 

I think Obama should release any and all documents, videos and memos on the subject so the people can see what the last administration thought was right. Of course more than half of the populace knows or we would have McCain in the White House, but I'm hoping that maybe some people who believe themselves to be moral and also Republicans see the videos and realize that their party is much less righteous than they had once believed and maybe they'll quit supporting those criminals.

What Would Jesus Do? He would be a Democrat and elect Barack Obama.