Egypt Torture. What Egypt Torture?

Where does Bush send suspected al Qaeda to be "interrogated?" Try Egypt:

The footage is shocking: A man lies screaming on the floor of a police station as officers sodomize him with a wooden pole.

Compounding the shock, it turns out that it was the police who made the film, and that they then transmitted it to the cell phones of the victim's friends in order to humiliate him.

Apparently Egypt is too valuable to worry about little things like basic human rights. After all, they are one of the very few regimes that is willing to do the bidding of the U.S. and Israel. Democracy in Egypt is inconvenient:

Human rights activists say police brutality is deeply entrenched in Egyptian life.

"Torture in Egypt is just routine, exerted on everybody whether in political or criminal cases, and the police don't really feel any shame in practicing it," said Mohammed Zarie, head of the Human Rights Center for the Assistance of Prisoners.

Our government believes that democracy is good if it serves their purpose.