Before we accuse others of torture, remember we were good at it, too

NEWT GINGRICH put up a stout defence of US President George W Bush’s intervention in Iraq on Marian Finucane’s radio show on Thursday.

Before we accuse others of torture, remember we were good at it, too
Sat, 26 Jun, 2004 - 01:00
Ryle Dwyer

It was a fascinating interview in which he denounced torture, yet seemed to argue that it could be used in certain cases, such as in the event of the capture of a lieutenant of somebody trying to nuke a city.

Would it be justified to torture that person to get information in time to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people?

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