Andrew Sullivan on “Verschärfte Vernehmung” (enhanced interrogation)
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Andrew Sullivan on “Verschärfte Vernehmung” (enhanced interrogation):
Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I’m not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact: the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many have been used in the past. The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn’t-somehow-torture - ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ - is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death.
(Source kottke.org.)
I tend to agree. He should be locked up for this, or gross stupidity. How long is he still around for?! ;-)
Jon: Folks are gearing up to replace him now (2008 election). But, I’d prefer he went to jail before he left office.
I hear you! That would be perfect - perhaps with a live webcam installed which people paid tp access and all profits went to Global Climate Change!