hey georgie if we DON'T torture why can't we actually pass laws saying that?

once again, i fear for the safety of our service people deployed in the middle east (or anywhere for that matter). if it's ok for US to torture captured 'soldiers' (and i'm not sure they are ALL soldiers) why isn't it ok for other countries to torture OUR soldiers? turn about being fair play and all. i don't understand the dick or georgie mindsets. i really don't. i know we have to protect our country against those who wish us harm. how did we do that by invading iraq? none of the 9/11 terrorists were FROM iraq or TRAINED IN iraq or SUPPORTED by iraq. anyway, i'm rambling.

Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture'


By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer on Nov 7,11:39 PM ET
President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful. "We do not torture," Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas.
Bush supported an effort spearheaded by Vice President Dick Cheney to block or modify a proposed Senate-passed ban on torture.
"We're working with Congress to make sure that as we go forward, we make it possible, more possible, to do our job," Bush said. "There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again. And so, you bet we will aggressively pursue them. But we will do so under the law."
Cheney is seeking to persuade Congress to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency from the proposed torture ban if one is passed by both chambers.
Bush spoke at a news conference with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider a challenge to the administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects.
In a case entailing a major test of the government's wartime powers, justices will decide whether Osama bin Laden's former driver can be tried for war crimes before military officers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, U.S. military forces have held hundreds of suspects at known installations outside the United States, including at the Guantanamo Bay naval base.
On Monday, the Pentagon announced that five additional terror suspects at Guantanamo will face military trials on various charges including attacking civilians and murder. That brought to nine out of about 500 detainees at the facility who have been charged with criminal offenses.
Bush was asked about reports that the CIA was separately maintaining secret prisons in eastern Europe and Asia to interrogate al-Qaida suspects — and demands by the International Red Cross for access to them.
Without confirming or denying the existence of such prisons, Bush said, "Our country is at war, and our government has the obligation to protect the American people."......

"our" country is at war? i didn't vote for this war. i didn't feel threated by the people of iraq BEFORE this war (i do now. we pissed them off a might). the people of iraq didn't try to invade OUR country or drop bombs on OUR country. yup saddam was (and is) and evil man. he DESERVED to be removed from power. then again many do now and many did. why didn't we take baby doc out or papa doc for that matter or qaddafi or that idiot from romania or on and on.