Today's (prepare to be tortured) Jaw Dropper

"So the very amendment that, less than a year ago, the Times applauded because it “bann[ed] torture, abuse and cruelty” would now “put American soldiers in grave jeopardy by rewriting the Geneva Conventions.”

But you can’t really accuse the Times of inconsistency. The paper is consistent, all right: consistently hysterical about anything that is done by the Bush administration. [ You absolutely must go read Power Line today. You will conclude that the Fascifists attack on W is itself torture. HINT: One of the crimes punishable by the Military Commissions themselves is ... wait for it ... TORTURE! And are you so incredibly naive as to believe that the most advanced legal system on earth doesn't already have a perfectly good definition for it? -ed. ] "