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Washington Monthly: Torture Debate is Over

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:21 pm
by Doug
In most issues of the Washington Monthly, we favor articles that we hope will launch a debate. In this issue we seek to end one. The unifying message of the articles that follow is, simply, Stop. In the wake of September 11, the United States became a nation that practiced torture. Astonishingly—despite the repudiation of torture by experts and the revelations of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib—we remain one. As we go to press, President George W. Bush stands poised to veto a measure that would end all use of torture by the United States. His move, we suspect, will provoke only limited outcry. What once was shocking is now ordinary.

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DOUG
Bush did veto it.

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:31 pm
by Barbara Fitzpatrick
Of course he did. Nothing recharges his batteries as much as thinking about people being tortured and/or offed.