Obama talks a good game...

But he's about as substantive as wearing pants made of tissue paper.
Obama is giving another one of his famously dull press conferences tonight. During sweeps! The networks can't be happy about that.
Anyway, when asked about his decision to cease enhanced interrogations, he answered by talking about Churchill and Britain during World War II. Obama claimed the British had some 200 detainees, or POWs, and Winston Churchill supposedly said "We don't torture", regarding how they would be treated. This is completely false, and as he is wont to do, Obama got this nice little anecdote from, you guessed it, the always inaccurate yet reliable enough for the mainstream media liberal left wing blogosphere.
Putting aside the whole "is water boarding torture" debate, let me ask this question:
How likely is it that any of those prisoners knew Hitler's war plans? I'll tell you -- not very. The difference is in conventional warfare there is very little chance, if any, that any captured Nazi soldier would have been in a position to know what actions were coming next, where, how, why, and so forth. All those decisions would be made in secure locations far from the front lines of the battlefield.
The terrorists we captured in the war on terror were high-level targets, meaning they were knowledgeable and instrumental in Al Qaeda's efforts. They actually knew something. Comparing World War II and the War on Terror is comparing apples and oranges. Or Snickers bars and broccoli.