Bloggers Against Torture

Please be sure to check out the Blogathon 2006 Campaign scheduled for July 29th, and contribute or participate - even through comments on that date - if you can.

There's been a great deal of talk and ink expended in recent years about what will be the "Bush legacy" - and in my mind, that legacy will be comprised primarily of acts which have brought shame upon the reputation, image, and formerly good name of the United States. Certainly at the top of that list is this Administration's reprehensible embrace and defense of torture as a justifiable tool in its "war on terror."

It may seem to many that the topic of torture is "so last year," but to me it is simply incomprehensible that no one in the Bush White House has yet been held accountable for its systematic abuses - even murder - of unarmed, often innocent detainees. Its open support for continuing a policy of torture whenever the President deems it "necessary and allowable" is a stain on our national character that will probably not be erased in my lifetime. That these policies have been put in place by a group which cloaks itself in "moral values" is the height of outrageous hypocrisy.