It's the Crimes against Humanity, stupid!

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish:

"Run that by me again. The point is not 'an anti-Bush political issue.' It's about whether the United States condones torture of prisoners (many of whom have turned out to be innocent) in its care. Since president Bush shifted U.S. policy to one which allows what any sane person would call torture, any criticism of the policy, by its very nature, has to be 'anti-Bush.' And when the president responds to his egregious error - which has undermined the war - by rewarding those who helped him make it, like Gonzales and Bybee, are we all supposed to roll over? Is all legitimate criticism of the administration now reducible to this kind of inane partisanship? Glenn's deeper point is that if you ask for torture to be stopped, the majority of Americans will respond by saying: ramp it up. But that amounts to complete capitulation to something no civilized person should tolerate, and no grown-up military officer would approve. Glenn cannot pretend to be anti-torture, while eschewing any serious attempts to stop it through the political process.If you won't stand up to the Bush administration on torture, is there anything you won't acquiesce to? And it's not 'hype.' Read the reports. "

Exactly. Since when was rational and critical thought merely bashing Mr Bush? It's only accidental that most of our justifiable criticism happens to cast a few people in a nagative light.

Apparently, though, to some, one must blindly follow one's leaders to be a devout follower .. I mean patriot.