Kidnapping their families to get detainees to talk. Who would do such a thing? We did!

Congress has demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hand over a raft of documents to Congress that could substantiate allegations that U.S. forces have tried to break terror suspects by kidnapping and mistreating their family members. Rumsfeld has until 5 p.m. Friday to comply.

It now appears that kidnapping, scarcely covered by the media, and absent in the major military investigations of detainee abuse, may have been systematically employed by U.S. troops. Salon has obtained Army documents that show several cases where U.S. forces abducted terror suspects’ families. After he was thrown in prison, Cpl. Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader at Abu Ghraib, told investigators the military routinely kidnapped family members to force suspects to turn themselves in.

This is beyond evil.

Even the Mafia leaves families alone. "Family is family, and business is business."

So now our government is the moral inferior of Tony Soprano.

There is no way in hell that the rest of the world can possibly take us seriously as an ethical leader in the world with these kinds of techniques being utilized to wage war on people who may not even be guilty of anything except being of the wrong religious persuasion or ethnicity.