Shorter Andy McCarthy:
My moral superiority over liberals is clear, because I know how to pretend that torture is acceptable when practiced by the American government.
I don't believe that "reasonable minds" can disagree on whether or not waterboarding constitutes torture. If you're making an argument that something is almost but not quite torture and thus might perhaps be morally acceptable behavior, you're already necessarily arguing from a thoroughly disgusting moral position.
About Mukasey's confirmation to AG, the reason McCarthy is waterboard-weaseling in the first place: what Scott said. I'm going to go not think about these sociopaths for a while...