When he spoke to the U.N. General Assembly this week, President Barack Obama accomplished in one sentence what the New York Times has been unable to do for six years: refer to the practices used during the Bush administration to interrogate terrorism suspects as “torture.”
The Times, along with other prominent outposts in the “liberal” media, to this day won’t use the word “torture” when reporting on the procedures used by Bushies to elicit “confessions” from suspects. Obama apparently had no problems with it, saying in his U.N. speech: “On my first day in office, I prohibited — without exception or equivocation — the use of torture by the United States of America.”
Of course, when it comes to actually investigating and prosecuting Bush administration officials and lawyers who authorized the illegal torture practices, well, Obama is still a little slow on the uptake. But give him credit for actually uttering the T-word.
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