lay those dead reporters at abu graib bush's feet.

Anyone who doesn't see a bright line between these atrocities is being willfully blind.

So we lost the moral high ground, significantly increased the risk of American soldiers and civilians being tortured in retaliation, lost the support of the world in the war on terror (along with the 2003 Iraq War), and it didn't even get us anything. Nothing but garbage intelligence from people willing to say anything to make the torture stop. The best intelligence was gathered by traditional, non-enhanced, interrogations.

Edit: Oh, and handed the enemy a PR and recruitment bonanza they can constantly point to to show that we're really the bad guys. Absolutely idiotic policy.

Surprised? Not in the least.

Could these have been induced torture such as simulated drownings? We need a full complete honest accounting of the war crimes the bush cabal engaged in and still being covered up today under Obama

as opposed to looking backwards, donchaknow.

By our CIA.

The more he shoves this under the rug, the more he becomes complicit.

alive, so he could keep torturing them. Who says the Bush administration had no interest in learning from history?

Bush was a puppet. Dick Cheney? has no soul. no morals and clearly zero brains on how to get info

Why has no one gone to prison for the rest of their life for what was ordered done? Is this really the kind of country we have become, one that allows people who did these things to walk free among us?

and all that excellent stuff. Plus we have to help us spread our morality and democracy throughout the world.

I guess they must think that means Exemptionalism too...