Does this make any sense?

I mean, even from a blame-the-Democrats-for-being-soft-on-terrorism-any-way-you-can perspective? Bush says his CIA torture program is absolutely totally critical to avoiding new terrorist attacks on America. You know, the terrorist attacks we're supposedly preventing by fighting The Terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here: GOP divisions widen over war by Zachary Coile San Francisco Chronicle 09/16/06. Coile reports:

Bush, in a televised news conference Friday, intensified the fight when he warned that he might shut down programs he said are necessary to break up terrorist plots if Congress continues to reject his legislative proposals for interrogating enemy combatants and putting them on trial.

But the Republican president didn't mention that his plans are being blocked by three leaders of his own party: Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a prisoner of war for six years in Vietnam; Sen. John Warner of Virginia, a former Navy secretary; and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who was a military lawyer for the Air Force.

I'm still not convinced those three are serious about restraining the Cheney-Bush torture program. If they are, you have to wonder why they haven't done something effective to put a stop to it long before now. The "McCain Torture Bill" was a bad joke. Still, if they've decided to act like responsible legislators, that's fine with me. But I don't think they deserve any special credit for opposing torture, the minimum Congress should have been doing from the start.

You can find the full transcript and a video of Dear Leader Bush's press conference defending torture here: Press Conference of the President 09/15/06.

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