The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anyone will say anything under torture.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.