Thursday, April 23, 2009

Condi Rice Gave OK to Torture but...



...so what?



TimesOnline.co.uk is reporting that Rice, as Bush's National Security

Advisor, "approved" of torture techniques being used. The thing is,

her position was advisory back then--her advice was just that. Nothing

she said or did at that point was binding on anyone. She could have

called for free chocolate bunnies to be handed out to Abu Ghraib

prisoners and it would not have happened.



The only reason this story does matter is that it serves as more proof

that Rice lied to us and that she's horribly amoral--both of which we

already knew.



Should Rice be brought up on warcrimes charges? Of course--she's as

guilty as any member of the Bush Admin for not trying to stop these

horrible things from happening. But let's get our facts straight--Rice

approving of torture had nothing to do with whether it happened or not.



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