Not In Our Names: Nazis, Torture And The Bush Administration

Sullivan has written an excellent piece on Nazi techniques of torture endorsed by the Bush administration.

If you're offended by comparisons between the Bush administration and the Nazis, then you should urge the Bush administration to abandon the use of bloodless torture methods pioneered by Nazis who were later convicted of war crimes including homicide resulting from interrogations that incorporated the savage methods embraced today by top Bush administration officials. 

While Sullivan considers the simple equation of the Bush administration with Nazism to be out-of-line (as this writer does), he notes correctly that Cheney, Rumsfeld and John Yoo have all relied upon arguments used by Nazis convicted of serious war crimes in defense of torture techniques employed today by American interrogators in U.S. detention facilities.

No offense to Barak Obama intended here, but if we accept this, it is who we are.

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