If German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the “Desert Fox”, had been captured during WII, would President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vice-President Harry Truman and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower have ordered him to be waterboarded (tortured) to extract information about German troop movements, etc., intelligence that might have saved the lives of thousands of Allied and American fighting men?
When WWII torpedo bomber pilot George Herbert Walker Bush was shot down by Japanese anti aircraft fire, did he pray to God that if he was captured the Japanese would honor and respect the Geneva Conventions, a treaty expressly forbidding signatory nations from employing tortures such as waterboarding against captives?
What a difference a generation makes.
The shame that the Cheney-Bush Republican/Christian administration has brought on this nation will take generations to erase, if ever it can. And Americans wonder why they hate us.
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