Mickey Spillane lives. Mike Hammer with a typewriter (OK, keyboard). "I was working the day-watch out of homoicide division..."
Yeah, there's no bias in the mainstream American press. Drama, hard-nosed cynicism. Blather and bilge. The liberal fringe (which seems to be doing all the dog-wagging of late) should get a load of itself.

Civil rights are for civil (look the word up) people. Torture and torment are what millions of Iraqis have gone through with Hussein. Torture is what the surviving families and friends of 9/11 victims have gone through.

And yet, I can imagine very FEW instances where torture might possibly be justified (dire circumstance, lives in the ballance and extreemly limited time, Perhaps). We ought to strive to demonstrate our highest ideals to these lowest of enemies and I believe that for the most part we do. Ask yourself if you'd rather be detained at Gitmo or be in the hands of the Taliban or Al Qaeda?