The Reality of Torture -- Dan Froomkin »
Posted By berkeley 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsPresident Bush and Vice President Cheney would like you to believe that only a few left-wingers think the Bush administration's treatment of detainees amounted to torture.
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If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies to public ...
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Ciera-Marie10 months, 2 weeks ago
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Well said SC. Especially after calling out former heads of overseas government (Pol Pot, etc) for torturing and then using those very same methods.
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We used to have standards and treated prisoners of war, prisoners well. We didn't stoop to their standards. Now we've become the enemy.
My question, that has not been truly answered (it has with tons of name calling by the defenders of the practice on propeller), is how can we then expect our service men/women and business men/women and citizens not to be tortured and treated fairly if they're taken prisoner, hostage or commit a crime and go to jail in a foreign country?
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