As a nation, we can't sink to torture

Normally, I would agree with those who claim there is no excuse for ignorance. However, with the Bush Administration, with all its secretiveness and fake executive privilege, I wouldn't hold it against anybody if they are unaware of the following:

Rendition: This is when our guys take a person by bursting into a room with overwhelming force and begin to strip "it" (they don't like to think of the "subject" as a person), shackle "it", drug "it" with suppositories forced into the appropriate orifice, throw "it" into a van, then unto a plane and off they go to a "black site" in a foreign country. The "it" is then subjected to "enhanced interrogation" methods, which more often than not, could easily be construed as torture.

Extraordinary Rendition: Now, this is really smart. This is the same as above, only instead of our guys doing the questioning, they turn their backs while our "allies" in such Democratic strongholds like Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, do the torturing. The reason our boys turn their backs? Something called "plausible deniability." If they didn't "see" it, they cannot be held liable for fostering it.

Nice, huh?

Folks, if our country sacrifices the Constitution, the country is hardly worth fighting for.

Let's get some smart people running things again, and stop all this faith-based foolishness.

I love my country and feel there is a moral imperative to criticize it when it is wrong -- and this is wrong.

Stephen Beisiegel

Schaumburg