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Nancy Pelosi: Martyr to Self-Righteousness
Rich Lowry, National Review...Pelosi has uncorked Washingtons least believable and most internally inconsistent denial since Bill Clinton wagged his finger over that woman.  Pelosis motivation for putting her reputation and perhaps her speakership on the line is more subtle than Clintons. She is sacrificing her credibility on the altar of moral vanity and rhetorical excess. She is trapped under the terrible freight of the word torture, the Lefts obligatory swearword for the Bush interrogation program. Torture is a war crime, and anyone complicit in it is a war criminal. It admits of no wiggle room. For Pelosi to acknowledge she knew of torture as far back as 2002 and did nothing to stop it is to condemn herself as an unindicted co-conspirator in George W. Bushs crimes. Better to obfuscate and dodge, and remain adamant about a truth commission, even when she cant tell the truth herself.Pelosis inaction years ago speaks more eloquently than her denunciations of the Bush administration since. Even if she was uncomfortable with the use of waterboarding, she clearly didnt consider it torture. If she had been told that the CIA was burning detainees with cigarettes, would she also have implicitly approved? Lets hope not. But given the choice between forswearing the simplistic and morally self-gratifying attack on Bush as a torturer, and hurling herself on a pyre in front of the national press corps, Pelosi chose self-immolation.... Posted by: Mike 2009-05-19 |
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