This is Disgusting.

An excerpt from a New York Times article is posted in this entry on the Huffington Post blog.

Even if you don't read the commentary around it, read the excerpts, the parts in italics. Read what is reportedly going on in interrogation rooms in our name and then think about the atrocities we're told Hussein was guilty of which justify the war, even if we never found the WMDs or the link to al qaida.

And then think about the amount of trouble Newsweek magazine got into for reporting a comparatively minor atrocity which may not have been true. The complaint we heard the most was that Newsweek was making America and the administration look bad by reporting things it could not substantiate. I agree, they should not be reporting unsubstantiated things, but compared to the truly stomach-turning descriptions in the link above, I rather wish I could believe flushing a Koran was the ONLY thing we’ve done to our prisoners.

We need our press to be reporting these things (kudos to the Times). We as a nation need to be aware of the actions being undertaken in our names. The Christian Right needs to understand the very UN-christian behavior of those they support.

And to truly make yourself ill, read to the very end of the italicized excerpt, to the point where you find out that most of the interrogators believe that the man they described, who died in our custody after extreme torture, was an innocent. Driving past the wrong place at the wrong time, and he died an anguished, tortured death in the name of American freedom.

If that’s the price of freedom, I think maybe it’s just a little bit too expensive. If we’re willing to stoop to that level, perhaps we don’t deserve it after all.

Liam.