Senator Whitehouse is Right: A Vote For Mukasey is a Vote for Torture [View All]

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Any Senator who votes to confirm Michael Mukasey as George Bush's new Attorney General is voting in favor of torture.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, a former federal prosecutor and one of the best of the class elected to the Senate in 2006, eloquently asked the simple question on the Senate floor yesterday: "Whence cometh our strength as a nation?"

"Our strength comes from the fact that we stand for something. Our strength comes from the aspirations of millions around the globe who want to be like us, who want their country to be like ours. Our strength comes when we embody the hopes and dreams of mankind."

Senator Whitehouse then went on to ask: "Will we trust our ideals?" Or "will we join that gloomy historical line leading from the Inquisition, through the prisons of tyrant regimes, through the gulags and dark cells, and through Saddam Hussein's torture chambers? Will that be the path we choose?"

more:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/senator-whitehouse-is-rig_b_70777.html