The judge played the holocaust card. In his testimony yesterday, Bush’s nominee for AG compared the interrogation of terrorists in Iraq, with vital information about threats to U.S. servicemen and Iraqi civilians, to the death camps of Nazi’s Germany. On the one hand, our treatment of people who have chosen to forego the protections afforded by the Geneva Convention, as such criminals were treated by the British in Northern Ireland (with the approval of the European Court of Justice) - on the other, extermination of people for the crime of being circumcised.

There is no doubt that our forces in World War II - with perfect correctness - subjected spies out of uniform to much more brutal interrogation than is now permitted. If they hadn’t, then the death camps wouldn’t have been liberated at all, and far more would have died.

Can’t anyone disagree with a policy - however wrongheadedly - without bringing in Hitler? And couldn’t Bush have found a candidate for Attorney General who was more emollient, but who would not be placing meaningless obstacles in the way of our struggle against Islamofascism, and thus making it easier for terrorists to kill both our men and women in the field and our citizens at home? This was a shameful performance.

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