Altercation Sends a Memo to the Prez

From Eric Alterman today:

Cut the crap about our good “hearts” Mr. Excuse-Maker-In-Chief. Nobody cares what’s in the heart of a torturer when he is sticking a cattle prod into your genitals. We are no more “moral” than the French in Algeria, the British in Northern Ireland, the Israelis on the West Bank, or our former selves in Vietnam. (Too bad you and Mr. Cheney were busy elsewhere during that one, sir.) War crimes are a part of war, especially guerrilla war. Buy one, get the other one free. (And by the way, these abuses could have been stopped a long time ago if anyone in the administration had cared. As the WSJ reported, the Red Cross informed the administration of these types of abuses over a year ago.)