Quote of the Day

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. Those rough men might hesitate knowing their commander-in-chief just might not stand behind them if their actions become known. Their hesitation will lead to American deaths."

Erik Erickson, of RedState.com.

Erickson makes the most unintentional homoerotic gaffe since the volleyball scene in Top Gun. Erickson goes on to spread the myth that the Left is "working on behalf of our enemies." My rebuttal is torture doesn't work. I wrote a post in 2007 about tortured detainee al-Shaykh al-Libbi giving false information under distress.

"Al Qaeda continues to have a deep interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction," Colin Powell told the Untied Nations. "I can trace the story of a sernior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these weapons to al Qaeda. Fortunately, this operative is now detained and he has told his story."

The information was tortured out of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libbi was bogus. He was tortured by means of waterboarding and hypothermia. He told his interrogators what they wanted to hear for one simple reason. So they would stop. Former Vietnam POW and Senator John McCain wrote, "I gave them the names of the Green Bay Packers' offensive line, knowing that providing them false information was sufficient to suspend the abuse."

The Bush administration used this bogus intelligence to make the case for the Iraq war. Erickson is delusional for believing torture works.