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A FORMER US Army torturer has described the traumatic effects of American interrogation techniques in Iraq - on their victims and on the perpetrators themselves.

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idyll
June 11, 2007, 10:20 a.m.
It's hard to believe that this wasn't seen as wrong from the beginning. I predict that the US, in coming decades, will have to go through as much soul-searching about what we allowed to happen in our name as the Germans after WWII.
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Charlson
June 11, 2007, 2:33 p.m.
After Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, it is the Bush administration's moral resposibility for the torture and murder of any US military or civilian captured by enemy combatants. How are we to expect the honorable treatment of our men and women if we can't abide by the Geneva Convention's prohibition of torture?
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time4change
June 11, 2007, 8:32 p.m.
And these are the violations of the Geneva Convention that we know about/are coming to light. What about the transportation of prisoners/detainees to Poland etc and "secret" prisons where far worse atrocities were/are being committed ?? The words that jump out from this article is "most were innocent". And we wonder why Bush et al has given a name, given life, given strength, given a future to terrorism ?? Bush calls them terrorists.....from their vision of life, they are freedom fighters against the imperialist US who entered their country illegally, murdered their leader, is responsible for immeasurable loss of life, loss of limbs, loss of homes/structures and loss of hope. How would we have responded if we were in their shoes ?