Trent Lott on torture

TheJacksonChannel.com - News - Sen. Lott Sounds Off On Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Photos: "'Frankly, to save some American troops' lives or a unit that could be in danger, I think you should get really rough with them,' Lott said. 'Some of those people should probably not be in prisons in the first place.'

When asked about the photo showing a prisoner being threatened with a dog, Lott was unmoved.

'Nothing wrong with holding a dog up there unless it ate him,' Lott said. '(They just) scared him with the dog.'

Lott was reminded that at least one prisoner had died at the hands of his captors after a beating.

'This is not Sunday school,' he said. 'This is interrogation. This is rough stuff.'"

From Political Animal and Kevin Drum, but this is really amazing. Kevin worries that there are four phases to the torture story. " Phase 1: horrible, just horrible. Phase 2: yes, it's bad, but keep in mind that it's not as bad as Saddam. Phase 3: give it a rest, OK?" Then stage four is torturer as hero. What have we come to? The nature of this war is up for debate as is the ability of our President. But if you start justifying torture, what kind of society have you become? What then separates us from the people we fight?