BUSH SAYS TORTURE IS ILLEGAL AND WE DON'T DO TORTURE - BUT WATERBOARDING IS OKAY

What's wrong with the reasoning of the White House and Bush on waterboarding?

Here's how those guys reason - Torture is illegal. Waterboarding is not illegal. Therefore, waterboarding is not torture. This according to Olivier Knox writing for AFP, quoted by Dan Froomkin in his White House Watch.

When Bush is out of office in another 11 months, will there be anyone in power who will defend waterboarding? Waterboarding defender John Yoo will long be gone, the same with former legal counsel now appellate judge Bybee who wrote that notorious memo saying waterboarding was not illegal. Furthermore, Bush will have no Dick Cheney to defend the practice or defend the Bush reasoning.

We all know that waterboarding is torture and is reprehensible. But these guys have resurrected it, as if it were a legitimate interrogation technique. History will not kindly look upon Bush and his minions.