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Brian Stuckey of Denver writes:

Congratulation to judge Michael Mukasey for standing his ground against the Senate Judiciary Committee! What the Rocky Mountain News calls “Mukasey’s misstep” is, in essence, the key to his credibility. The committee, anxious to excoriate the Bush Administration for what it calls “torture” of terrorist suspects, had the tables turned on them instead. The truth of the matter is that interrogation techniques—call them what you will—are imperative in time of war. If waterboarding, or any other form of interrogation, would have prevented an attack such as 9/11, that in itself would justify its application. Yet, some will stop at nothing to advance their own political agenda, even in time of war. The Attorney General nomination is a case in point.

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READER COMMENTS

Since torture makes make our job of winning the heart and minds of the Muslim people more difficult, thus costing more American lives and making any kind of success in Iraq all the more unlikely, and exposes Americans to greater risk of being tortured, to say nothing about further eroding our credibility in the world when that credibility is most badly needed, torture needs to be outlawed.

I don't fault Mukasey for declining to take a stand on waterboarding before he gets into office where he can become more fully informed.

Truth,

Mukasey is already as "informed" as he'll ever be. The pro-torture-anti-abortionists have replaced the former Inquisitor and Torturer General of the United States with a clone. That's all there is left in Washington. The Nation will just have to hang in there, and hang on, till the Democrats win in 2008.

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