... another goosestep towards a New World Order

The "Torturegate" memo
provided by The Wall Street Journal

"The infliction of pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insufficient to amount to torture. [It]... must be of such a high level of intensity that the pain is difficult for the subject to endure."

Full text of the Pentagon's internal memo giving legal rationale and reasons why the US could and should use torture and near-torture, in direct contravention of the Geneva Convention and other international treaties.

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With each new revelation, the Bush Administration seems to me to be taking yet another goosestep towards a New World Order.

And now more than ever, the Iraqi situation seems to me a repeat of the Crusades - a rape of the East by greedy, opportunistic men to the trumpeting accompaniment of hollow moral justifications. And needless to say, those greedy, opportunistic men aren't the ones whose blood gets spilt on the sand.


I wonder if the US Homeland Security Department are taking suggestions for military salutes they could institute for themselves? There's a nifty one that no-one's used since WWII going free...