Is torture honorable?

http://www.sacbee.com/326/story/323525-p2.html
August 2007

Re “Contrast Dems to GOP,” letter, Aug. 9: David Davidson claims that President Clinton’s impeachment “put our country through a traumatic experience.” Clinton did not put the country through a traumatic experience. It was the Republican-controlled House led by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay.

The impeachment charges against Clinton pale in comparison to the high crimes and misdemeanors perpetrated against our democracy and our Constitution by George W. Bush—illegal wiretapping, torture, rendition, indefinite detention without habeas corpus and the Iraq war, to name a few.

If the letter writer believes that his party “thinks that the highest office is deserving of honor far above the desire to hold that office,” then he needs to re-examine his definition of honor, and I implore him to put his love of country before his love of party.

- Cathlyn Daly, Elk Grove

http://www.sacbee.com/326/story/323525-p2.html
August 2007

Re “Contrast Dems to GOP,” letter, Aug. 9: David Davidson claims that President Clinton’s impeachment “put our country through a traumatic experience.” Clinton did not put the country through a traumatic experience. It was the Republican-controlled House led by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay.

The impeachment charges against Clinton pale in comparison to the high crimes and misdemeanors perpetrated against our democracy and our Constitution by George W. Bush—illegal wiretapping, torture, rendition, indefinite detention without habeas corpus and the Iraq war, to name a few.

If the letter writer believes that his party “thinks that the highest office is deserving of honor far above the desire to hold that office,” then he needs to re-examine his definition of honor, and I implore him to put his love of country before his love of party.

- Cathlyn Daly, Elk Grove