Doug Miller wrote:
It's outsourcing of torture, which in turn indicates that this
administration thinks that it is OK to use torture (as if it
wasn't clear already that they feel that way).

That's quite a leap of assumption you're making there.

If you legalize the outsourcing of torture, you're in effect legalizing
torture. Under current US law, outsourcing torture is illegal. Yet, this
administration has done it anyway (look up the case of Maher Arar). Lawyers
for the administration have written lengthy documents explaining why
torture is not against the law when the President orders it. And now they
want to make the outsourcing of torture fully legal.

Even worse, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo have shown that there
are Americans perfectly willing and able to torture people,
so these jobs don't even *need* to be outsourced.

Oh, please. That wasn't torture. You obviously don't have any idea what
torture really is.

You can nitpick all you want, but if you stick a broom up someone's ass,
it's torture. When you systematically beat them with a chair, that's
torture. When you pour acid on them, that's torture. All of this happened
at Abu Ghraib. There have been beatings and even killings at Guantanamo
Bay. There are reports of children being raped in front of their parents.
It is understandable that Americans would rather not hear such things, but
sticking your head in the sand isn't going to make these events "unhappen".