Waterboarding is torture and its use takes us back to the Dark Ages
Tennessean
by Bob Hoyt
11/06/07
http://tinyurl.com/2m6vcg
On the path to barbarity
Guardian [UK]
by John Laughland
11/06/07
Arguments in favour of the legalisation of torture have not lost their capacity to shock. The fact that US attorneys-general and the senior legal adviser at the state department have said they are in favour of it seems proof to many of America’s slide into barbarism. In reality, however, their pro-torture arguments are no different from the claims made in favour of ‘humanitarian war’ and of other forms of military intervention — arguments that, unfortunately, have become increasingly popular since the end of the cold war...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2205833,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Laughland
by Bob Hoyt
11/06/07
http://tinyurl.com/2m6vcg
On the path to barbarity
Guardian [UK]
by John Laughland
11/06/07
Arguments in favour of the legalisation of torture have not lost their capacity to shock. The fact that US attorneys-general and the senior legal adviser at the state department have said they are in favour of it seems proof to many of America’s slide into barbarism. In reality, however, their pro-torture arguments are no different from the claims made in favour of ‘humanitarian war’ and of other forms of military intervention — arguments that, unfortunately, have become increasingly popular since the end of the cold war...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2205833,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Laughland
rudkla - 7. Nov, 11:22
