On This Date in Bush History-11/30: Gitmo Torture

On This Date in Bush History-11/30: Gitmo Torture

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, 1776

2004: The New York Times reports today that the International Committee of the Red Cross believes that the United States military has used tactics in the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba that are "tantamount to torture".

While the Bush administration might justify its treatment of prisoners at Gitmo as a necessary evil, consider the thoughts of Bush's widely respected top commander in the later years of the Iraq conflict, Gen. David Petraeus. Having watched the 'management' of the war's earlier years by Bush and Rumsfeld, Petraeus would say in 2007, "We can never sink to the level of the enemy; we have done that at times in theater and it has cost us enormously".

Read more in the 2008 Calendar: "Poor George's Almanac"