[oceanview]

what facts do you want to see? either you think these practices are torture, or you don't. either you think these prisoners and terrorists should be treated better then this, or you think its OK.

[ejdrapes]

I would like to know who at the highest level approved these tactics since everyone from Bush on down has condemed what happened and how it was wrong and will never happen again, ect. It'd be one thing if Bush had come out and said "I'm sorry but were in a war and sometimes these things are necessary. And these were not POW's, they were unlawful combatants, so the Geneva Conventions do not apply." But he didn't. Just last week at the G-8 summit Bush said that his directive was for people to follow US and international law.

If it turns out that Rumsfeld or Myers, or Bush approved these tactics how do they defend approving something they've now condemed?

[Proud Legions]

These interrogation techniques are legal by international law. These prisoners were not POWs by internationa standards. In contrast, the techniques used at the prison were not legal, but of course that is very cleaverly not what this article is saying...yet most Americans will not notice that this leaked memo does not actually say that...just insinuates it.