Hey, if it's not torture, that means it's not child abuse either, right??

in human and in national terms

...at least until you get them to think about it a little.

Raytheon's optimized pain infliction device

Teacher faces flogging for allowing a teddy bear to be given world's most common male name.

Notice there's blatant graft going on in Iraq reconstruction, report it, get imprisoned & tortured. Dude, where's my country?

Thanks for finding it, tugger.

Using torture isn't a tool for beating the bad guys, it's a way to make yourself one of the bad guys. As usual, Slacktivist can be relied on for a thoughtful analysis.

Oh, *those* Geneva Conventions, as gramina put it.

American doctors help torture prisoners. Thanks for the bad news, meowse.

Apparently, we treat our own injured soldiers with about the same care as we have the prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
This update informs us that the new head of the program will be a medical professional, unlike previous ones.

...and we don't refer service people for help with their PTSD, either.

Thanks to gramina for all links.