Marc Cooper: "Now comes one of those great Hitler-Stalin Pact moments that make partisan politics so damn entertaining. In the late 1930’s the Communist Left had to leap through acrobatic hoops, wildly flip-flopping on appeasing or opposing the Nazis in order to stay in perfect lockstep with Soviet foreign policy. Now Conservative Republicans who only yesterday were justifying torture in perfect lockstep with GW Bush are going to be doing some back flipping of their own. Or are they?"

Nah, I don't think so. Bush always opposed torture; so do his supporters. The issue is about "abuse" and "humiliation" -- which are NOT torture, but also not defined. Bush caves, not fighting; no big deal for Bush supporters.

The anti-(Viet)War protesters, who supported N. Viet commie victory, also never did big back flipping.