The sea grows dark: The tortured lives of interrogators

waterboarding: a U.S. sanctioned torture technique that simulates drowning Basho wrote: The sea grows dark / The voices of the wild ducks / turn white: Laura Blumenfeld (04-Jun-07), The tortured lives of interrogators: Veterans of Iraq, N. Ireland and Mideast share stark memories, Washingtonpost.com [Washington, D.C.], online (accessed 04-Jun-07).


This story describes what happens when the shadow of torture falls upon you. We shouldn't be too smug that the shadow won't lengthen to embrace more of us. (Highlighting me.)

"I tortured people," said Lagouranis, 37, who was a military intelligence specialist in Iraq from January 2004 until January 2005. "You have to twist your mind up so much to justify doing that."

Posted by 3Dsound at Monday, June 04, 2007 10:22 AM
Categories: Basho, haiku, torture, Iraq, war on terror, Bush administration

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