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While everyone’s talking and thinking about Campaign 2008, the Attorney General of the United States says that CIA waterboarding in 2002-03 was legal, and thus the DOJ cannot investigate the matter. Vice President Dick Cheney calls CIA waterboarding of terror suspects “a good thing.” The White House says the CIA could do it again if the President says so.

When some sleazy tinpot Third-World dictatorship uses waterboarding, the United States condemns it as torture and decries it as a grievous violation of human rights. Yet the President of the United States says it’s OK — legal, and certainly not torture – if we do it. You tell me, readers: How is that not an example of the very same “moral relativism” which torture supporters tell us is an abhorrent un-American liberal sin?