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Waterboarding for Everyone!

We discussed this on the program yesterday, another important issue getting short shrift in the media. The retired General who led the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse investigation has concluded in a new report that the Bush Administration is guilty of war crimes. The report was compiled by the group Physicians for Human Rights and presents medical evidence of the use of torture by the our government.

Doctors and mental health experts examined 11 detainees held for long periods in the prison system that President Bush established after the 9-11 terrorist attacks. All of them eventually were released without charges.

The doctors and experts determined that the men had been subject to cruelties that ranged from isolation, sleep deprivation and hooding to electric shocks, beating and, in one case, being forced to drink urine.

This information keeps coming out, but why is nothing ever done about it? Will is really take photos of George Bush personally attaching electrodes to detainees testicles to get him hauled before a tribunal?