If you never heard of the "Tucker Telephone" it was an old magneto type telephone used to punish inmates. The unfortunate had electrodes attached (usually to the genitals) and the guard would give the magneto a crank or two. If you have ever grabbed a spark plug wire -- you get my drift. The prison farms in Arkansas were the worst place one could be incarcerated in the good old USA.  It appears that good old Arkansas ingenuity has spread to the middle east making Abu Ghraib (and Gitmo) the worst places on earth.

Bush and Company have made our enemies choose "fight to the death" rather than be captured by sadistic torturers. Can't say I blame them.