Amnesty Int'l has to ask Americans to stop torture by America

Reading my paper this morning, I came across a full page ad from Amnesty International which basically asks Americans to help stop American torture and American secret prisons and American unfair trials. Amnesty has asked Americans to help stop that kind of activity around the world, but it's just striking that Amnesty needs help from Americans try to stop the American government from doing it. Says so much about the way George Bush has led our country. It's one of those things I can't get out of my head: We're torturers.

AJ explained below torture isn't even effective. That doesn't matter to the leader of the free world, George Bush. Our State Department produces yearly reports on other countries' human rights abuses every year. Maybe Condi should start writing one on the U.S.

Check out the Amnesty ad. It's jarring. It has to be stopped.

So far, it seems Graham, McCain and Warner are still holding out against the Bush pressure. The Attorney General and even Laura Bush have now weighed in on the pro-torture side.