Bush caves on torture

There has been some good news today. Bush-Cheney have caved on the torture issue and agreed not to block the McCain anti-torture legislation. I'm sure they'll try to sneak around it some way or other, perhaps by defining "humane treatment" to include what the rest of us would define as torture, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

Furthermore, the fact that Bush was forced to cave on this just demonstrates how weakened he has become. The weaker, the better as far as I'm concerned.

It also makes you wonder where Cheney stands in the overall scheme of things these days. Torture was his baby, and blocking this legislation was his top priority.

But, it is certainly a sorry commentary on the state of this country that we had to go through this in order to try to keep our government from torturing people.