Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

There seems to be a perverse fascination with the question of whether the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA worked or not.

Clearly what the CIA did meets the definition of inhumane and degrading treatment. The American government tried, convicted, and then executed Japanese soldiers who engaged in torture techniques like water boarding on our men during world war II. In international law water boarding is regarded as torture, and thus is illegal.

Shoot-a-lawyer-in-the-face Cheney authorized and strongly encouraged various degrading torture techniques. Now he is trying to suggest that just because a little bit of useful information may have been obtained from this torture, that he and his fellow travelers should not have to go to jail.

Of course Cheney never served in the military. The coward did everything possible to avoid military service.

The next time one of our troops is captured and it subsequently mistreated or tortured, Republicans like Cheney, Rumsfeld, and George Bush Jr. should be held accountable.

Torture in not only illegal, it is un-American. Our country is strongest when we do what we say we believe in.
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