It's actually pretty obvious when you compare the two of them. As Steve Huntley writes in the Chicago Sun Times, when Dick Cheney defends the interrogation methods that were used back in 2002 he is arguing from conviction, and you can see that when you listen to him. You don't get that sense at all when you listen to Nancy Pelosi's moral posturing. This paragraph captures her predicament.
'Several journalists underwent waterboarding and declared it to be torture. No one has ever had to have his fingernails pulled out to deem that ordeal to be torture. That journalists had to experiment with waterboarding suggests it might fall into a gray area.'
Gray area, hell! If journalists could experiment with waterboarding it's not torture. Pelosi launched a political attack that went awry, and now she's caught up in it herself. So sad.
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