Who is he kidding

Today's holier than thou speech by Obama regarding the "torture" conducted on three Al Qaeda captives during the Bush Administration described this as a horrible mistake by the US. Supposedly, this so-called torture was a recruiting tool used by Al Qaeda and other terrorists that made the USA less safe.

While I disagree with the premise and the conclusion of Obama's speech (apparently al Qaeda was able to recruit people for 9-11 and many other attacks before Guantanamo was open), I think that Obama's speech was truly dishonest. During the Clinton years, the USA ran the rendition program when dealing with terror suspects. Under this program, the US turned high value terrorists who were captured over to the Egyptians and the Egyptians then tortured the captives to get the information that these people had. So, under the Democrats, the USA outsourced the actual torture of terrorists to Egyptians, while under Bush, the three people waterboarded were questioned with a doctor present and under the limits imposed by the DOJ. Simply put, if the Bush administration actions were torture, then the Clinton administration actions were much worse torture.

I do not think that torture by Democrats would excuse torture by Republicans. Nevertheless, the halos worn by liars such as Pelosi who was ranking member on the intelligence committee during rendition or the other Obamacrats who decry the actions at Guantanamo are tarnished to say the least. Indeed, were the American people to realize the extent of the duplicity by these self proclaimed paragons of virtue, it would not take long for them all to be run out of town.

Obama himself was obviously not involved during the Clinton years. Nevertheless, he ought tell the truth now if he is doing anything other than political posturing.