Thank You Jack Bauer!

The American soldier who was taken prisoner and then found dead yesterday was tortured with a bull whip and a power drill.

I'm sure he gave the insurgents valuable information that they needed, right?

This is the dirty underbelly of torture that the little authoritarians on the right don't want to talk about; it puts our soldiers at risk and removes any moral high ground we could possibly have.

UPDATE: "[The US is] “the leading country using fear to justify the unjustifiable. The U.S. used to be in a position to speak out effectively against torture and military tribunals. We can’t do that now because we are carrying out some of the same practices." -Larry Cox, head of Amnesty International