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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:02 PM
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Time to remind people of this:
The Bush administration had entered uncharted legal territory beginning in 2002, holding prisoners outside the scrutiny of the International Red Cross and subjecting them to harrowing pressure tactics. They included ... long periods manacled in stress positions.....


But a recent opinion piece by Karl Rove turned that distinction between enhanced interrogation methods and torture on its head. Rove wrote:

Another McCain story, somewhat better known, is about the Vietnamese practice of torturing him by tying his head between his ankles with his arms behind him, and then leaving him for hours. The torture so badly busted up his shoulders that to this day Mr. McCain can't raise his arms over his head.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/01/rove-stress-positions-are_n_99652.html
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:05 PM
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1. That scum. I'm so disgusted that anyone at all is giving him a platform.
The only way he should be in newspapers and magazines is if he buys his own.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:07 PM
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2. We are torturing people; McCain approves.
That alone should disqualify him from holding any high office.
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:12 PM
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3. Bingo. nt
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