Taking its cue from the Right Wing Noise Machine, the White House
enters the fray.
The White House said a senator's comparison of American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was reprehensible and a disservice to those serving in the military.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it is "beyond belief" that Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin would compare treatment of dangerous enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay to the death of millions of innocent people by oppressive regimes.
What is beyond belief is that the type of torture more at home under tyrants and dictators is being seen in camps flying the United States flag.
If McClellan and Bush want to defend torture, that's their right. But it's not the America I believe in.