Senator Sanctimony's latest

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Not surprisingly, Connecticut's odious junior senator would like the US to "look forward" when it comes to the illegal torture the country was involved in during his kissing comrade's administration. Yesterday on CNN's "State of the Union"

Sen. Joe Lieberman ... said the continued discussion [regarding torture] would "make it harder for the president to do some of the big things he wants to do for the country — not just get the economy going, but get some Republican support for health care reform, energy independence and education reform."

"I go back to what the president said at the beginning, it is time to look forward," Lieberman said. "These are top secret documents. These were lawyers, you could disagree with them but in my opinion they were trying to do what they thought would protect our country."

Lieberman also argued that "this whole debate is moot. President Obama has prohibited these tactics from being used in interrogation, so what do we gain… by releasing the memos (and) from indicting lawyers for their opinions?"

Lieberman also said that, in his opinion, having a so-called "Truth Commission" to investigate the Bush record on interrogation would "poison the water here in Washington. It will achieve nothing ... So let the Intelligence Committee do its work. That should be the end of it."

I can't help but think that Holy Joe is ok with this because those tortured were Muslims. It'd be interesting to see how he'd react if the victims were of another religious persuasion.