Warren Kinsella leads the charge against Michael Ignatieff’s latest article on torture. Even though it probably would have been a more enjoyable use of my time to be strapped in the Iron Maiden, I decided to read the full article.

And, after doing so, I fail to see what the fuss is about. It’s obviously an anti-torture article, here’s the crux of it:

So I end up supporting an absolute and unconditional ban on both torture and those forms of coercive interrogation that involve stress and duress, and I believe that enforcement of such a ban should be up to the military justice system plus the federal courts. I also believe that the training of interrogators can be improved by executive order and that the training must rigorously exclude stress and duress methods.

It’s pretty obvious that Ignatieff doesn’t support torture. However, what is also obvious is that, much like Harper, there are a lot of old Ignatieff quotes which would be used against him during an election campaign. And, in writing a lengthy piece full of juicy quotes which could be misconstrued, Ignatieff displayed the kind of poor political judgment you’d expect from someone with zero political experience.