by Mark Tebeau | April 22nd, 2009
Even more evidence that torture is not only unacceptable morally but it is illegal. Amazing, we did not look into the history of these practices when we began using them: In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Use – NYTimes.com.
If a waterboard is in a genocide museum in Cambodia, as a denunciation of the genocidal dictator pol pot, and if a the United States prosecuted those who used the technique in war crimes trials after World War II, then perhaps we can surmise that it is illegal today.
I write “we” because in adopting these tactics, George Bush made all of us complicit; these are our crimes. How about we make them his crimes as well?
