Torture and Democracy

[kpete]

When politicians first heard of the torture, they denied it happened, minimized the violence, and called it ill treatment. When the evidence mounted, they tried a few bad apples, disparaged the prisoners, and observed that terrorists had done worse things. They claimed torture was effective and necessary, and counterchallenged that critics were aiding the enemy. Some offered apologies, but accepted no responsibility. Others preferred not to dwell on past events.

The torture would continue, yielding no reliable information, while the democracies remained mired in war against weaker enemies. "Soon," states Rejali, "politicians had to choose between losing their democracy and losing their war. That is how democracies lose wars." It is also, we might fear, how they lose their democracies.

http://humanityagainstcrimes.blogspot.com/2008/05/legitimacy.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Hubert Flottz]

2. What will the GOPers tell the children?

More lies...a hell of an example our "LEADERS" are.

Even a child knows that what happened at Abu Ghraib was wrong.