if you weren't already feeling sick to your stomach about our government's policy of torturing prisoners of war, i give you this.

The Blog | Larry Beinhart: Imagine (Torture & The Geneva Conventions) | The Huffington Post:

Imagine, if you will, that you are an Iraqi. You have a captured American pilot. You know that American jets will be bombing your city later this afternoon. If you could only find out what their targets are you could move the women and children - maybe even the old and the sick - out of harm's way. You might be able to save hundreds, perhaps thousands if you only knew where the bombs would strike. Your children are in the city. Your grandparents. Your cousins. The girl you loved when you were twelve years old, who married someone else and is now the mother of two lovely twins.
You could save them, if only you could get that American pilot to talk.