“As the New Yorker said [on March 24, 2008], torture at Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] ‘was de facto United States policy,’ and ‘the authorization and decriminalization of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of captives in wartime have been among the defining legacies’ of the Bush administration.”
– Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pages 83-84