I knew that President Bush was pro-torture, but did you know he’s pro-torture of U.S. war heroes and, apparently, pro-Saddam? The L.A. Times has the story:
The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist.
The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Bush’s self-proclaimed respect for our men and women in uniform has failed to materialize on a single front. But I never thought it would get this bad.
Co-counsel for the POWs John Norton Moore wrote an explanation of the case for Slate’s ‘Jurisprudence’ department available at http://slate.msn.com/id/2112514/ which makes an interesting companion piece.