when a sexual assault on one man, Abner Louima, could become a national scandal? I'll bet the police officer who lost his job over that one is musing on the injustice of it all, considering that if he'd been a guard at Gitmo he'd probably have been promoted for it.

Let's not forget Jill Carroll. She spent 82 days captive in Iraq and her release was under similar conditions. I'm sure there are other examples. I don't know why Bushco has to copy what our adversaries do. It would be a good idea if each member of this administration were subjected to their own "interrogation techniques" so they could experience them first hand. They basically don't work and aren't worth the time, trouble and risk.

Just don't anyone think for a minute that this torture is the work of a few bad apples. Soldiers don't take it upon themselves to do these things unless authorized. I believe this all comes straight from the top. I wonder if there will ever be any accountability. If not, what's to stop the next guy who comes along?

"Outrageous" and "Disgusting" don't begin to convey the magnitudes of the offenses involved.

Once again, thanks to our morally depraved Born-Again-Christian-in-Chief, America's standing in the world as the beacon of liberty, truth and respected moral prinicples, with an unwavering commitment to the rule of international law, is being further turned into the enemy we used to despise and fight.

We have met the enemy, and they is us!

Not only has the US (and many of it's citizens, apparently) accepted what can only be seen as the United States new role as world tyrant (brutalizing people the world over, taking over the jobs formally held by Saddam Hussein and 3rd world dictators), but little is seemingly being done to reverse this grotesque turn for the worst.

Is it any wonder Kurt Vonnegut said there is truly no hope for humanity?

The great American experiment failed, kids. Our glorious "white, Christian male power structure" made sure of that.

It is worth noting that the torture techniques used are the same techniques used in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. This training system was introduced in response to Korean torture techniques designed to elicit false confessions from American soldiers. Like all historical torture techniques, ranging from the Inquisition to the KGB, these methods are not used to elicit accurate information, but to induce terror into the both the prison population and the population at large.

Whenever I think that we've finally reached some limit, they take yet another step on the path of Soviet-style totalitarianism. Now the US tortures people into signing false statements. There are reports of a Gulag. What's next?

The main stream media says its OK by not investigating.

Congress says its OK by not doing anything.

Saying "Bye bye, Constitution" must be OK, too.