Torture? America's Shame!

Unhappily I got home last night just in time to watch the PBS Frontier program, "Question of Torture" which details the ugly and widespread practice of torture used at Guantánamo and then transferred to Iraq, which was manifestly initiated and sanctioned at the highest levels of our government -- by Rumsfeld, Bush, Gonzalez, a series of generals et al.

I am old enough to remember vividly that thousands of brave Americans sacrificed their lives during WW2 precisely to end off such practices by the Nazis, Italian fascists, and Japanese. I was horrified and chagrined to discover that my own nation is now being run by war criminals who have sunk to such depths. No wonder the Bush administration fought so hard against the establishment of an International Criminal Court -- not our soldiers, but their commanders are clearly appropriate subjects to be indicted by same!
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