I'm not advocating torture.

Had to say that first before people freak out.

Anyway, I've never seen this poster before, and I'm a WW2 history buff. Is there a source for this poster?

In this time of extreme partisanship one has to question the source of nearly everything.
ShortRound | 02.28.08 - 12:32 pm | #

Imagine the scene...

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. She hears muffled sounds coming from well outside the confines of her bedroom. It's 3:30am. She puts on her housecoat and opens the bedroom door. There's a light coming from the basement and some scuffling sounds are heard. She slips downstairs and peeks into her husbands workshop. Her husband, dressed in battle fatigues, has another man tied to the workbench and is dropping marbles onto his forehead. The terrified man shrieks through the gag in his mouth. Her husband implores the man to tell him where his friends are. The woman gasps in disbelief drawing the attention of her husband. He sees her in the shadows of the stairwell. She approaches him and exclaims, "What do you think you're doing??!!!"

"You promised me you wouldn't bring work home anymore!! You promised me we would spend more time together!!"
Tim | 02.28.08 - 1:27 pm | #

Hmm... Perhaps this is authentic WWII propaganda, but it could very easily be recent agitprop made to look old.

Maybe it was created recently, not as a deliberate hoax, but as an homage which was accidentally picked up by someone else.
James Nightshade | 02.28.08 - 6:21 pm | #

The typography and color choices point to 1950's rather than WWII. Not that it *couldn't* be from the '40s, but the style says Korea or Vietnam.
Danby | 02.28.08 - 6:35 pm | #

I'm 100% against torture, and am ashamed my country (Canada) played a large role in the Maher Arar fiasco. That said, Mark, you seem to want to criticize rather than correct.
Colm | 02.29.08 - 12:33 pm | #

According to the third article you link to, the coroners ruled the 2 deaths homicides and charged 7 soldiers. How exactly is that official support from our torture regime? I think perhaps you were a bit unfair about that one.
Eric Slate | 03.01.08 - 11:39 pm | #