I happen to believe that history will judge the Bush administration’s embrace of torture as the darkest of the dark marks against it. But history is something happening now that we will look back on in the future, so I have been beating the anti-torture drum pretty hard over at my own blog, Kiko’s House.
If you share the views of daveinboca, an uber patriot and TMV troll who exalts in his government embracing Nazi-like interrogation techniques, then read no further. (Just one question, Dave: Do you think the CIA would have gotten any useful information out of Jesus?)
If you are revolted like I am and believe that torture not only undermines the core values on which the U.S. was founded but also calls into question who we really are, then stop over and read my latest piece.
It concerns the Justice (sic) Department not only giving those nasty Chinese commies access to indigenous Chinese being held at the Guantánamo Bay branch of the Rumsfeld Gulag, but also having them “softened up” for Beijing’s thugs — or allowing its own thugs to torture them.
If you’re on the fence, you can click here for an index and links to my other posts on torture and make up your own mind.