Your Weekly Rush: Hitting it Out of the Park

Provided you are playing on one of those little table top parks.

Albert Gonzeles was asked a lot of tough questions about torture, about the torture that went on in Abu Ghraib and the torture that went on. But those pointy headed elitist liberals who were asking the questions got asked one of their own. The old Ticking Time Bomb scenario. Turns out the questioners had a hard time answering that question.

I heard more elitist professorial gibberish than I have heard in 30 minutes in my life at one time. In fact, there was one slip-up. Admiral Hutson said, "Well, if you have to, but it shouldn't become who you are and it shouldn't set a precedent," and I said, "Well, your whole argument is out the window, then, admiral, because if you're going to authorize torture in the ticking bomb scenario, you're authorizing torture."

You are saying that there is a circumstance in which it is justified. That is, to save hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

Of course what Rush leaves out is that this question is pretty irrelevant. Torture wasn't be used for this reason. As you yourself pointed out, it was being used to blow off some steam.

Secondly, dimwit, saying that Torture is ok to save lives in this manufactured scenario is not the same as saying that Torture is ok in all cases. Because the next question is how far down that slippery slope you want to go. And America, apparently, doesn't want to go very far.