Whether Americans
intended it or not, we are now
seen around the
world as approving the torture of captives at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and at a global network of secret CIA prisons, as well as having endorsed Bush's claim that, as commander - in - chief in «wartime,» he is beyond all constraints of the Constitution or international law.