Dubya likes torture - Simple as that

Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post gets it completely. What passes for leaders in the United States of America today are seriously and openly debating torture of prisoners.
Dubya, bringing back the inquisitions and the witch hunts one torture at a time.
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Torture Is Torture
Bush's 'Program' Disgraces All Americans
--Eugene Robinson
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It's past time to stop mincing words. The Decider, or maybe we should now call him the Inquisitor, sticks to anodyne euphemisms. He speaks of "alternative" questioning techniques, and his umbrella term for the whole shop of horrors is "the program." Of course, he won't fully detail the methods that were used in the secret CIA prisons -- and who knows where else? -- but various sources have said they have included not just the infamous "waterboarding," which the administration apparently will reluctantly forswear, but also sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, bombardment with ear-splitting noise and other assaults that cause not just mental duress but physical agony. That is torture, and to call it anything else is a lie.
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It is not possible for our elected representatives to hold any sort of honorable "debate" over torture. Bush says he is waging a "struggle for civilization," but civilized nations do not debate slavery or genocide, and they don't debate torture, either. This spectacle insults and dishonors every American.

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The Huffington Post had this to say: