Will Obama Buy Torture-Lite?

You’ve got to hand it to them. Torture aficionados at the White House and CIA have conned key congressional leaders into insisting not only that torture-lite would be a swell idea, but advocating that the overseers of torture be kept on.

From change-you-can-believe-in, we seem to be slipping back to fear-you-can-trade-on.

It is not just Obama, or even the Intelligence Committees, it is the entire palace of moral bankruptcy that makes this possible.

He is a advocate of homophobia, is stalling on closing Guantanamo and giving excuses in place of results.

Gates blames everyone but himself. Gates fires reality-oriented officers. Gates is a warmonger, that is how he got his present job.

Now Mr. Obama and his campaign advisors are floating the idea of keeping Sec'y of Defense GATES on as Sec'y in the "anti-war," Democratic Obama Administration?

Admittedly Mr. Gates's no Rumsfeld.

But gee, this makes Obama's idea of nominating Sen. Lugar for Sec'y of State (R., Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, one of 8 congressional members briefed by Bush during this war, and famed Obama mentor) look merely conservative.

Our new war policies: same as our old war policies?