RENDITION: COLIN POWELL DIRECTLY DERIDES EU'S FALSE RESPONSE

BBC:

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has indicated that Europeans are being disingenuous when they deny knowledge of the rendition of terror suspects.

Mr Powell said the recently highlighted practice of moving people to places where they are not covered by US law was neither "new or unknown" to Europe. He was speaking after his successor, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, faced tough questioning about the use of rendition during a recent trip to Europe.

She admitted that terror suspects were flown abroad for interrogation, but said this was "a lawful weapon", and denied the prisoners were tortured. She refused to address claims that the CIA runs secret prisons abroad where suspects are interrogated without reference to international law.

But Gen Powell was dismissive of the furore in Europe. "There's a little bit of the movie Casablanca in this, where, you know, the inspector says 'I'm shocked, shocked that this kind of thing takes place'. "Well, most of our European friends cannot be shocked that this kind of thing takes place... The fact that we have, over the years, had procedures in place that would deal with people who are responsible for terrorist activities, or suspected of terrorist activities, and so the thing that is called rendition is not something that is new or unknown to my European friends."

I'm no fan of Powell's - haven't been since 1991, when he left the job in Iraq UNFINISHED. But I am glad he spoke the BLUNT truth today. The furor over rendition is BS - as is the furor over the NSA intercepts - (as was the furor over Abu Ghraib and Gitmo).

The Left is morally and politcally bankrupt; the Left has no policies except to attack the USA - even if it helps the enemy. And the Left's reactions to Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and the Patriot Act and to renditon and to secret CIA prisons and to NSA intercepts are WRONG.

THIS IS NOT SURPRISING: The Left has been WRONG about EVERYTHING: the Left said we woudln't dislodge the Taliban, (after all the USSR couldn't defeat the Afghanis), AND THEY WERE WRONG. They said millions of refugees would starve. THEY WERE WRONG - millions returned home. The Left said we went into Iraq for oil; they were wrong. They said Bush lied; they were wrong (as was much of the WMD stockpile intel'). They said we'd never establish either an Afghani or Iraqi democracy; they were wrong.

The Left: 100% WRONG 100% of the time. Why does ANYBODY listen to them anymore!?