Beyond Waterboarding

As the Congress wets its pants over Michael Mukasey's ambivalence regarding Waterboarding and torture, I wonder if they are as critical of bombs, bullets, colonialism, and physical assault against Iraqis? I wonder if they think about the sanctions against Iraq, imposed by Clinton's Presidency, that literally starved the Iraqi People killing over 1 million? Do they condemn military maneuvers that attack water treatment plants and destroy the possibility of clean water for Iraqis? Do they consider it torture to dam and horde water to quench the thirst of Americans at the expense of Mexicans, Navajo communities, and others forced to die of thirst? Do they continue to back NAFTA and other free trade policies that have deregulated environmental protection laws and compromised the quality of water in the global South?

If the Democrats want to condemn torture, which of course they should, perhaps they would be well advised to condemn murder, ecological destruction and genocide as well.