Here’s a very interesting read from today’s Washington Post that gets past the surface level of the debate about Torture and whether it’s something that the United States does or doesn’t do. The article describes the underlying laws and conventions that specify how prisoners of war are to be treated, and the legalistic dance the Bush administration uses to backup Bush’s claim that “we don’t torture” while at the same time using techniques that if used against Americans, all would surely agree is torture. It’s a shameful example of one of the many ways that George Bush has diminished America.
Torture, American-Style
The Washington Post, 11/27/05