Is Torture American?

Molly Ivins asks the question, "Is torture American?" in this article. Hopefully there will be more and more articles about the way America is treating it's prisoners of war (and please don't call them "enemy combatants" since that is pure spin).

Molly makes the point that our soldiers are subject to the standards we use on others (which is what terrifies me about our abuses):

Is This American?

Rather than fire Donald Rumsfeld and the rest of the chain of command responsible for torturing POWs at Guantanamo and at Abu Gharaib, President Bush congratulated Mr. Rumsfeld and nominated Mr. Gonzalez for the job of Attorney General.

Now it has come to light that the courts feel that it is fine to admit evidence acquired via torture in trial proceedings.

Is this American?


This is a disgrace and the largest moral failing of my generation. Why is it Americans seem to care more about Barry Bonds use of steroids than whether their country is torturing other human beings?

American's in WWII didn't treat the Nazi Germans this way, so why are we so morally infallible?

WWJD?


ADDENDUM: Remind yourself that Iraq never attacked us before looking at these new torture photos and tell me what your conscience thinks.

Mine screams