Bugged by torture claims

Amy Goodman’s column “Torturers must be prosecuted” (April 23) misses the mark on several counts.

First, putting a person in a large box with a bug inside it is not torture. Putting bamboo shoots under a person’s fingernails, or breaking his bones, is torture.

Second, from my limited discussions with “real” people, nobody (not even one) has had any problem at all with the Bush administration’s techniques.

Third, the media and Congress are like a dog on a bone about this so-called torture issue, but nobody’s publicizing just what information was downloaded from the terrorists, and how many attacks were prevented and lives were saved.

Finally, in an unrelated article, Condoleezza Rice has been accused of verbally approving the so-called torture techniques. Good for you, Ms. Rice, good for you!

Hal R. Dixon

Spokane