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Note to Miami Herald -- Torture Is Not A "Partisan" Issue.
in Arthur Szyk, torture

Sorry but this stuff bugs the crap out of me:
What lazy and hacktacular framing.Yet liberal activists Thursday delivered 250,000 petitions to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding an independent prosecutor. Liberals in Congress are calling for a commission. And Obama himself all week refused to rule one out, saying that a bipartisan, independent panel would be the best option.
Right now, the political oxygen in the nation's capital is being consumed by rancor over the interrogations. That's why several experts on Congress and previous high-profile investigations think that it's increasingly likely that Obama will call for an independent panel, outside Congress, similar to the 9/11 Commission that examined the 2001 attacks.
That could help tone down the partisan bitterness over the issue, especially if officials who testified were given immunity from future prosecution.
Listen, when President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid both oppose investigating the United States officially incorporating torture methods as national policy, it's not simply a "left/right" issue. Believe me, we all know plenty of Dems played a role in allowing this fiasco to unfold.
It's a constitutional issue, an issue of the application and vindication of the rule of law, an issue of moral imperatives versus "pragmatic" or political compromise, an issue of our shared vision of what this country is or should be.
It's a right or wrong issue, draycups.
BTW, you can see more of the quite extraordinary artwork of Arthur Szyk here.
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