Why Bush Is Wrong On Torture

He never traveled to Afghanistan. The Canadian police intelligence about him was simply wrong. But after his coerced confession, he was held in a Syrian dungeon for 10 months and suffered devastating mental and economic harm before finally being released in 2003. Arar's case vividly illustrates a couple of the points that veteran military and diplomatic leaders have been trying to impress on Bush about the dangers of the CIA program, for which the president is demanding congressional approval. From early 2002 until this month the agency held some al-Qaida suspects in secret prisons and subjected them to harsh interrogation techniques that, though they don't include beatings with cables, violate the Geneva Conventions and current U.S. law. Others, like Arar, have been secretly handed over to foreign governments known to use torture in interrogations, including Egypt and Jordan as well as Syria - a practice known as rendition. http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060922/REPOSITORY/609220312/1027/OPINION01 [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 25, 2006]

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