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Bush Is Gonna Take His Iron Maiden and Go Home:

Here’s how you know you’ve lost your war: Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Peter King said this about detainee treatment legislation: “If we capture bin Laden tomorrow and we have to hold his head under water to find out when the next attack is going to happen, we ought to be able to do it.” Let’s put it this way: it’s one thing to say that in a one-in-a-million Jack Bauer-esque situation, you’d probably break the law and a few fingers to get the info you need so the nuke doesn’t go off. But it’s another thing entirely to say that you wanna make it the law.
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This is what we’ve been reduced to as a nation: arguing with each other over how far we can push our notions of “civilized” and still feel good about ourselves. How low can we go? ‘Cause, see, once you take one step down on a ladder, the next rung is right there, and the bottom gets ever closer.

There’s much more at the link above, but as always, he’s called the Rude Pundit for a reason.

Tags: politics, punditry, war on terror