He makes a good point

"It is not possible for our elected representatives to hold any sort of honorable "debate" over torture. Bush says he is waging a "struggle for civilization," but civilized nations do not debate slavery or genocide, and they don't debate torture, either."
-- Eugene Robinson, in the Washington Post

UPDATED: Joel Stein (my intellectual true love), has a great take on the torture debate (I can't post links from this computer, maybe I'll remember to do it later ... ), but here is the gist:
"If "waterboarding" really isn't effective, yielding only lies told to please captors, then maybe that's a good reason to end it. But if shooting people to get them to embrace pro-Western democracy also doesn't pan out, we might want to lighten up on that too."