Questioning Torture

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American News Project: Reporter's Notebook: Ten Lessons from
Recent Torture Hearings - The "enhanced interrogation tactics," used
in Guantanamo
under orders from the Pentagon and the White House have been the subject of
numerous hearings on Capitol Hill recently. The lawyers who approved the
policies--which many call torture--are under increasing pressure to explain how
it was possible for such methods to be ordered by the United States
government. More hearings are on the way.

 
Comment: kaijansen78 2008-07-16

After watching the video
above, I wonder when SOMEONE, either from the military or political machinery
will have the balls to begin WAR CRIMES proceeding against the US government,
naming those responsible from George Bush Junior down... Unless this happens, America
will have permanently lost any moral authority in the world and ANYTHING, will
be fair game in the future, whether from the so-called enemy or homegrown
talent. The level of brutality will just keep on rising. If I were a soldier
now in the US,
I would refuse those orders pertaining to torture and the like, and 'do my own
thing'. It would not be the first time that soldiers have refused to 'obey'.
And if I were a general in the Services, I would prosecute the Government, the
whole government, for negligence and brutality under constitutional &
international law! The Geneva Convention is not dead as far as I am aware, and
to ignore it, is a crime in itself.