So the Dems, trying to deflect from Obama's unmitigated record of failure and disaster, are once again beating the dead horse of Bush-era interrogations. You'd think 6 years of this crap would be enough.
Does anyone else here just find themselves unable to garner sympathy for the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his pals in the face of such horrors as being fed Ensure? Compare what we did to what they would have done to Americans given half the chance and I just fail to be outraged.
It isn't about garnering sympathy for the likes of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. It's about how we can't even try most of these people in court because we tortured them. Most of these people would be either serving life sentences or on death row right now, but oh no, the neo-cons just had to go about things as stupidly as possible. The only options we have now with people at Gitmo are to send them back to countries that will take them because Bush and Dick didn't think to collect evidence against these people and put them away for good, that is the guilty ones.
How we apprehended these detainees was also faulty. We paid Afghan warlords to round up bad guys. Of course, they rounded up any old random person in exchange for cash and much of those people were not terrorists. A cab driver was the subject of the doc "Taxi to the Dark Side". He was handed over for American money. Never had any involvement with terrorists, but we tortured him and he died.
If all you torture sympathizers got is, "but but but, they do worse things to us!", then you don't have much of an argument because rationalizing our behavior and saying it was only slightly less worse than terrorists is, on its face, stupid.