Circular Illogic: Using Torture Enables More War

There are consequences for using torture. This is not one-off use of torture. I think conservatives like to see it as one time, one insect, one slap, one waterboard kind of scenario. In and of itself, one person tortured is bearable to them.

They refuse to see that is was used all the time, against innocent people. And it was institutionalized from a top down decision process. That Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were the lone proponents, pushing for these uses of torture. They had the military carry it out for them, but it was them pouring that water down their throats. That is the image they refuse to see.

From a money standpoint, which is the only way they see things:



This is a post on torture, I won't even attempt to go into the medical costs it will take to care for all the veterans. Not to mention the biggest costs: the loss of life and the lifelong mental scars.