Torture - Why only now ?

Torture has been around since the beginning of time and to this day. Why, only now or should I say in the last eight years, has it been brought to OUR attention, that we used torture as a method of persuasion to obtain information from captured enemies to ascertain such things as the possibility of future attacks on our people. We have been doing so since the founding of our country. Not only us, but nations throughout world history, have done the same and in greather means of torture, we have ever used, witness: The Marquis de Sade, The torture chambers in the Tower of London and in our Civil War at Andersonville. We need only look to McCain, the Vietnam war, and the "Hanoi Hilton." HISTORY IS REPLETE WITH STORIES WHEREIN TORTURE WAS USED. AND WHAT IS TORTURE--A CRUEL MEANS OF PERSUASION. It seems strange to me, that I have lived through Wold War II and served in the Korean War and the Vietnam war--still I cannot recall any major political campaign, crying out for the abolishment of Torture in those Wars! LET ALONE IN HISTORY. Why now? Because the Liberal Media drummed up the use of torture,in G. W. Bush's War to bring disfavor to him and the conduct of the Iraq War! The li8berals and the liberal politicians only brought this matter up to defame Bush in any manner they could. Go back to when Clinton was in office or even further back to LBJ and the Vietnam War, or even further back to HST and the Korean war and of course to WW II under FDR and on this matter--TORTURE--the press, our people, our politicians were almost totally silent on this Matter. The didn't give a dam about it then and they are only using it as a tool to degrade the present war and GWB. IF YOU DOUBT CHECK OUR NATIONS HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD--look it up. How about Hitler, did he allow the use of Torture--of course he did. About the Nation of Japan, in World WW II, the Bataan Death March--was this not torture. THE BIGGEST HOAX NOW PLAYING BIG ON THE WORLD STAGE IS THAT EVERY NATION HAS COMPLIED WITH THE 1929 RULES OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION. ONLY THE IGNORANT OR THOSE wanting to continue to use it to cripple our Presidents ability to Protect us and/or THAT HAVE A POLITICAL MOTIVATION FOR CLAIMING SUCH, WOULD SAY SO NOW, OBAMA, WITH A MIGHTY STROKE OF HIS PEN, HE HAS PUT OUR NATION AND ITS PEOPLE--FURTHER AT RISK? ONE THING HE WILL BE GOOD FOR IS INCREASED NUMBERS PRAYING TO GOD TO SAVE OUR BUTTS! THE MESSENGER.