Recently, Dem. Presidential hopeful, Joseph Biden declared that “unless Michael Mukasey defines waterboarding as torture, he won't vote to confirm the attorney general nominee.” (source: foxnews.com)

            The office of Attorney General was set in place and “represents the United States in legal matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested.” (source: usdoj.gov)

            I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t know everything that is going on in the world today. But I have to wonder, aren’t there more pressing issues for the Attorney General to worry about than waterboarding being used on terrorists? Mr. Biden is not capable of making an informed decision about who should be legally defending my government if his decision is based on a singular issue. Does he care about the Hon. Mukasey’s record as a judge? Or is it simply, that if any nominee doesn’t agree with him on this issue, then he wont confirm him? If I were a senator looking to confirm a nominee I’d be more inclined to ask about his stance on constitutional issues. We aren’t torturing our own citizens. These are criminals of war. We need to get information in order to protect our own boarders. Does Mr. Biden assume that if we ask them nicely they would be more inclined to respond? I wonder what he would do if he was captured by Islamic terrorists. As he was faced with death, would he bargain for his life by informing them that he was opposed to waterboarding? These terrorists are happy for men like Mr. Biden who, instead of working to rid the world of terror, are more worried about whether or not terrorists are comfortable in their cells.

            Mr. Biden needs to realize that the office of Attorney General is bigger than representing the (il)legality of torture that is committed on terrorists. The world is plagued by killers and men like Biden are more worried about these killers being treated humanely than they are worried about justice being served.