Remember when you'd read a report and if it said "the body showed signs of torture" ...

[NNN0LHI]

... and we would think to ourselves thats not our boys that did that? At least I used to.

Seems like a lifetime ago.

Don

[Muttocracy]

1. and now they use torture that doesn't show marks

I was listening to some program on public radio and they were talking about how torture has changed. It's gone from showing marks on purpose as a warning to others, to not showing signs (waterboarding, sleep deprivation) to make it harder to prove it was committed. Strange.

And it will take a LONG time for the U.S. to rebuild its human rights credibility.

[90-percent]

2. Also

All our patriotic young people signing up to serve their country run increased risk of torture if captured by the enemy. We, the USA, no longer have a moral leg to stand on to condemn actions that violate the Geneva Conventions.

GWB sure has a perverse way to "support our troops", doesn't he?

-90% Jimmy

[genie_weenie]

3. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zambardo

The Lucifer Effect raises a fundamental question about the nature of human nature: How is it possible for ordinary, average, even good people to become perpetrators of evil?

http://www.lucifereffect.com/about_synopsis.htm">Read more of the synopsis.