Senator Whitehouse is Right: A Vote For Mukasey is a Vote for Torture

[maddezmom]

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

[lonestarnot]

1. waterboard experiment wating to happen.

[eleny]

2. He sure has a way with words

[BOSSHOG]

3. limbaugh should have it done to him on the floor of the Senate

administered by that former Navy Seal who had it done to him. Gosh its just a frat prank. Everybody does it a Club Med. By Gawd that'll shut the damned liberals up. Lets have a big ole display of macho conservative values rush. What's that? You've developed another pimple?