I was going to write something about this, but Jim Macdonald beat me to it:
Making Light: President Torture:
President Bush had a press conference yesterday. The first thing that struck me about it was the angry, hectoring tone that he took. What was Bush so angry about?
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Questioning of suspected terrorists “won’t go forward” unless Congress clarifies a U.S. standard for the treatment and interrogation of detainees, President Bush warned Friday.
The remarks appeared to be an attempt to put Congress on the spot about the future of a program that Bush says has helped thwart terrorism.
Yes, friends, Bush was saying, in almost so many words, “If you don’t make torture legal, I’m going to stop torturing people!”
Personally, I don’t see a down side to that.
I was going to say “That’s a feature, not a bug” myself. And only a bounder would suggest that the President of the United States would just hold his breath until he either turned blue or got his way. Besides, I think GWB has experienced enough oxygen deprivation to his brain for a lifetime, don’t you?