Is Obama hurting the Democratic Party by not joining forces with Hilla

[Jester]

Okay. This has now deteriorated into ranting, so I think the time is now to stop it before it boils over entirely.

I leave it to our audience to determine who is "redefining" torture and who isn't. To assist, I leave the crowd with as many as I can find in a quick online search. (Google: definition torture, taking the first handful that offer a concise definition, whatever that may be.)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/torture

http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/69MJXC

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art....ekey=33912

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/torture

... and, for good measure, Senator John McCain, specifically against Giuliani's idea that there are a range of distinctions to be made about whether waterboarding is torture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/us/polit...gin&oref=slogin

Judge for oneself.

Cheers, to the next.

-Jester

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