According to copies leaked to several newspapers, they lay out a shocking and immoral set of justifications for torture. In a paper prepared last year under the direction of the Defense Department's chief counsel, and first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, the president of the United States was declared empowered to disregard U.S. and international law and order the torture of foreign prisoners. Moreover, interrogators following the president's orders were declared immune from punishment. -- What if a foreign leader were to decide that the torture of an American was needed to protect his country's security? Would Americans regard that as legal, or morally acceptable? According to the Bush administration, they should. ~From the Washington Post:

I would remind everyone including any US personal engaged in torturing any persons. Despite the assurances of the depraved president Bush, the excuse in the war crimes trials after the second world war failed. The defense offered by Eichmann and others, that they were "...following orders issued by their superiors..." was declared to be an invalid defense. The orders themselves are illegal and once Bush is no longer in office your crime remains for the next president to deal with once you are exposed.

I have great respect for the military men and women, however any one who follows such an illegal order has no right to respect for once you disobey the law with full knowledge you are doing so you have become a traitor to your oath.  You should be prosecuted as a common criminal.

If you are told to use torture it is your legal obligation to refuse on the grounds that it is an illegal order and report the name of the officer who gave you that order. That is the ONLY honorable way to behave as a member of the US Military because your actions put you and your own bretheren in peril of torture and mistreatment at the hands of others.

Bush, by following any line of thinking that would even consider torture as "ok" shows a profound disregard for your safety and the safety of any American in harm's way. He cannot complain if you are tortured because he has declared that it is "ok" to torture someone with impunity.

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