Let me start off by reminding everyone what G.W. Bush has told the American public.

Let me make very clear the position of my government and our country.

We do not condone torture. I have never ordered torture. I will never

order torture. The values of this country are such that torture is not a

part of our soul and our being.

—President George W. Bush

June 22, 20041

Will the knowledge that both Bush and Rumfeld were personally involved change the way Conservatives feel or will it just make them more proud of Bush? I suspect the later. It's important to understand this book is based on the facts, facts gathered from thousands of government documents. These are not just the word of some fanatic trying to spin or get away with something.

Drawing almost exclusively from the documents, the authors say there is a stark contrast between the public statements of President Bush and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the policies those and others in the administration were advocating behind the scenes. President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in the book.

The only thing I find even more disgusting than the fact that torture and deaths has been carried out in our names is the Rumfeld personally may have watched it happen. As sick as I think that man is, he probably enjoyed it as a voyeur. The authors of the book go on to make a point I have been trying to push for a while now. That point is if we don't punish those responsible, that this will happen again.

The ACLU also found that an Army investigator reported Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the interrogation of a Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani. The prisoner was forced to parade naked in front of female interrogators wearing women's underwear on his head and was led around on a leash while being forced to perform dog tricks.

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