BUSH THREATENS VETO OF BILL BANNING WATERBOARDING AND TORTURE

Now George Bush is threatening to veto the newly passed House bill prohibiting waterboarding and "harsh interrogation methods." As Dan Froomkin points out in today's The Washington Post:

"President Bush's repeated insistence that "we don't torture" appeared even more transparently bogus yesterday as the White House threatened to veto a House bill that would explicitly ban a variety of abhorrent practices.

"The bill would require U.S. intelligence agencies to follow interrogation rules adopted by the armed forces last year."

Bush, so concerned with his "legacy," has often claimed that his present unpopularity will be fixed by history which will regard him as brave, courageous and principled. If that is the case, then history is going to have to accept torture and waterboarding as "courageous" and "principled" tactics in treating and interrogating prisoners.

I don't think Bush has any chance of being so found by history.