flamethrowers were common during world war 2 and not relly frowned against. they were outlawed after the war.

and while we killed civillians we never stooped to the level of torturing pow's for information.

while it would be untrue to say that the american army did not torture german pow's during world war 2 and their treatment after the war was finished. the rhine meadow camps are the obvious example. but it was not to extract information or save lives. of course that was in direct violiation of the geneva convention. but noone cared. as it seems they still don't.

at the end of this what are we to say to the iraqi people? "we freed you from a regime willing to torture you and replaced it with a regime willing yo torture you?"