Tom Watson looks at the subject HERE in a must-read. One small quote 4 U:
When we are reduced to defending torture by the standards of our enemies, we fail the grandest of our national ambitions and our arrogance looks weak and pitiful…The terrible irony in this defense of torture by the Bush Administration is that these men came to power through the efforts of a coalition of Christians. And yet our western revulsion of torture — the very reason all of our culture proscribes its use — is a product of the central Christian story: the torture and death of Jesus Christ at the hands of a powerful, martial nation threatened by regional movements that nip at its heels and threaten its power.
Read the rest yasself.