U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to launch an investigation into whether criminal prosecutions are warranted in connection with the torture of terror suspects during the Bush era made news headlines today as former Vice-President Cheney defended what he calls "enhanced interrogation" techniques.
These techniques, whatever euphemism that one attaches to them, are torture plain and simple; and they do not and cannot represent the values of American democracy . . . unless, of course, you think it's appropriate to threaten detainees with mock execution, imply that you are willing to rape their mothers . . . front of them, and make promises to find and kill their children.
The full report is available online at the address below, but one need not read it in it's entirety to know that these methods do not represent the best of America. We must never again allow ourselves to become monsters even as we attempt to combat the monstrous actions of others. Whether is happens at Guantanamo or in Abu Ghraib, wrong is wrong.
http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/aclu/IG_Report.pdf
I'm so glad the truth of our sickening involvement in torture is being revealed. I hated to hear what the Russians used to do to prisoners. Imagine my revulsion upon hearing what the US does.
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