Andrew Sullivan must really miss all those fact checkers from his days as a journalist. The latest folly is from his claims that Winston Churchill didn't condone torture. Here is one site calling BS: there are many more.

But it gets better. Our Churchill also gassed Kurds with mustard gas.

Maybe next we'll hear that gassing isn't torture. Maybe if it kills people fast enough...

But no:

Make no mistake, mustard gas can be lethal. But it doesn't kill quickly. Rather fatalities primarily result from secondary broncho-pneumonia. Approximately 2 percent of all casualties who wore a respirator died from their injuries in World War I, compared to a death rate of 50 percent of those exposed without a respirator [source: The Medical Front]. The highest number of fatalities occurred after the third or fourth day of exposure, with the most extreme cases taking up to three to four weeks

Too bad Barack Obama bought Sullivan's nonsense. And now, having sold the CIA down the river, he might have to pay a price for that.