QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 6:55 A.M. ET:  From Ralph Peters, in the New York Post, on the demands by the left to put on trial Bush officials involved in the interrogation program aimed at terror suspects:

Now the left wants an Inquisition for heretics who failed to share its worldview. Men and women who, in their capacity as public servants, wrestled with difficult legal issues in the course of our battle with terrorists are now to be tried and shamed because the left disagreed with their legal opinions and actions. No matter that most Americans wouldn't view the methods of our interrogators as torture when applied to hardened terrorists (despite the media's ceaseless effort to convince us otherwise). No matter that foreign leaders championed by the left use vastly more brutal techniques.

No matter that interrogators differ on the utility of "harsh" methods or that the information gleaned indisputably saved American lives. No matter that our system of government functioned as it was designed to.

COMMENT:  Absolutely correct.  This is a disgrace, with the potential for enormous damage to the United States, not that the left cares.

April 23, 2009