The Greatest Generation Condemns the Torture Generation

Keep in mind that these are the guys who interrogated, and actually got useful information out of, captured senior Axis figures.

"We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess.

Blunt criticism of modern enemy interrogations was a common refrain at the ceremonies held beside the Potomac River near Alexandria. Across the river, President Bush defended his administration's methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects during an Oval Office appearance.

They to a man condemned the tactics espoused by Bush and His Evil Minions^™