And I for one do not, and will never, agree with Lindsy and his girlfriend "Mad"alene Halfbright on the tortue question. I sincerely hope that President Bush vetoes the defense bill if it contains the McLame amendment. Write your Representative - I think that it still has to get past house(?) Also read this excellent piece The truth about torture
That's an excellent article; thank you for the link. I am deeply disappointed that so many Republicans have signed on to this "no torture" mantra from the left and my husband wrote Lindsey Graham a lengthy letter about that, as well as other positions Graham as endorsed.
From the article:
Nor can opponents of torture say that it is entirely foreign to the U.S. military experience, at least from what we know of it even in so-called good wars like World War II. There were American soldiers — sometimes in furor over the loss of comrades, sometimes to obtain critical information — who executed or tortured captured Japanese and German prisoners. Those who did so operated on a de facto "don't ask, don't tell" understanding, occasionally found it effective and were rarely punished by commanding officers. Even so, G.I.s never descended to the levels of depravity common in the Wehrmacht or the Soviet and Imperial Japanese armies.
There is also not much to the argument that our employment of torture will only embolden the enemy to barbarously treat Americans held captive. What a silly idea! Captured Americans have already been filmed being beheaded — or shot or burned — and their mutilated corpses hung up for public ridicule.