It's like revenge, you see...

...you easily become like your enemy in order to defeat him. Sad when your enemy supposedly embodies all you oppose in this world. Here's a quote from a washington post analysis:

Today, amazingly, America finds itself embroiled in the same kind of debate that Iran--one of the three nation's Bush admonished as a part of the "axis of evil"-- had three years ago when hardliners in the conservative Guardian Council repeatedly vetoed a version of a bill banning the torture of prisoners that had been pushed through the parliament by moderate backers of President Mohammad Khatami.

Read the full text here.