What is torture, anyway?

That is the question Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is essentially posing to Congress when asking for revisions in the War Crimes Act. Apparently, the Bush cabal finds the War Crimes Act, built around Geneva Convention Common Article Three, "too vague." They are concerned that current U.S. treatment of prisoners could be considered "war crimes" under the current interpretation.

Hello? They ARE committing "war crimes." We wouldn't want detained American soldiers to be treated the way we are treating our detainees. I agree with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) when he says, "We must remain a nation that is different from, and above, our enemies.”

An analogy for you: How fair would it be for a baseball team whose pitchers can't find the strike zone to ask the league to widen the strike zone so that anything short of a hit batsman is now considered a "strike," but only for THEIR team?

This is essentially what the Gonzo AG is asking Congress to do - actually, a little further than that, because it would likely be retroactive, in order to "forgive" our "troops" - it's likely that the abusers are private contractors and not actual military personnel - for criminal activity.

And we have to ask why "they hate our freedoms"? Seems like our freedoms aren't so hot for them in practice...

-R.