Opposing Torture: Better Late Than Never (Except For All The Victims)

Evangelical Group Criticizes Admin on Detainees

One of the nation’s largest evangelical groups has come out against the Bush administration on the treatment of detainees in the so-called war of terror. The National Association of Evangelicals has endorsed a statement saying the administration’s policies have crossed “boundaries of what is legally and morally permissible.” The declaration continues: “Tragically, documented cases of torture and inhumane and cruel behaviour have occurred at various sites in the war on terror, and current law opens procedural loopholes for more to continue.” The National Association of Evangelicals represents nearly forty-five thousand churches in the United States.

Source: Democracy Now, March 14, 2007

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We've known about organized methodical torture since 2004 (before that if one bothered to look at media reports outside the US corporate press). Apparently Abu Ghraib was fine, but somewhere, sometime, a line got crossed between "good torture" and "bad torture". Could somebody explain when that line was crossed, and what the criteria is?

TLC