The Torturer General刑总
It seems surreal: The president's nominee for the highest legal position in the land is a proponent of torture.看来超现实：对土地的最高法律地位，总统的提名，是一种酷刑的支持者。 In his notorious Jan. 25, 2002, memorandum to Bush, Alberto Gonzales clearly fancies himself a shrewd thinker, a smooth operator when it comes to finessing the inevitable outrage of our allies when they learn that we have violated the Geneva Conventions.在他的臭名昭著的2002年1月25日，布什的备忘录，冈萨雷斯显然幻想自己是一个精明的思想家，顺利运营完善时谈到了我们的盟友必然的愤怒时，他们知道我们违反了日内瓦公约。 His suggestion for rebuttal to, among others, Secretary of State Colin Powell, who argued that the Conventions applied to the Taliban and al-Qaida?他的建议为反驳等，国务卿科林鲍威尔，谁认为，公约适用于塔利班和基地组织？ “First, some of the language [of the Conventions] is undefined (it prohibits, for example, 'outrages upon personal dignity' and 'inhuman treatment').” Are personal dignity and inhumane treatment really so mysterious? “首先，该公约]语言[有些是不确定的（它禁止，例如，'损害个人尊严'和'不人道待遇'）。”是个人的尊严和不人道的待遇真的那么神秘？ So fungible?因此，互换？
The universal horror elicited by the photos of Abu Ghraib attests to the innate human ability to recognize humiliation, degradation and abuse.恐怖的普遍由阿布格莱布的照片引起证实了人类与生俱来的认知能力羞辱，退化和虐待。 As we saw in those photos, young soldiers — acting in accordance with the climate established high up in the chain of command — displayed, mocked and toyed with the genitals of prisoners who had also been beaten up, deprived of sleep, chained, hooded and made to stand for hours on one leg on elevated boxes lest they fall into the gaping jaws of trained attack dogs.正如我们在这些照片，年轻的士兵在依法办事的气候 - 看见高高建立在指挥链 - 显示，嘲笑，与谁也被殴打囚犯的生殖器玩弄，睡眠，连锁，蒙面，剥夺向站在一架空箱腿几个小时，以免他们成为训练有素的狗张开嘴攻击下降。 According to Gonzales' reasoning, none of these practices constitute torture unless they result in years of protracted suffering or “organ failure.” In other words, only if a prisoner dies, or almost dies, can one know if one is actually committing torture.据冈萨雷斯的推理，这些做法都构成酷刑，除非他们在长期的痛苦或“器官衰竭的结果。”换言之，只有当一名囚犯死亡，或几乎死了，可一知道如果一个人真的犯酷刑。
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