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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/15/2008

The Right And Abu Ghraib I

— andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — My own view is that the American conservative movement's embrace or defense of torture was the moment... its intellectual collapse became irrecoverable. When conservatism abandoned core values of American decency in favor of pure force, ... (more) The Right And Abu Ghraib I

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George W. Bush

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andyworthington.co.uk - 12/25/2008

Remember Abu Ghraib?

— andyworthington.co.uk — Torture and Truth While I’m working on The Guantanamo Files , here’s something relevant to the whole... topic: a review I did of Mark Danner’s excellent analysis of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Torture and Truth , which was featured on the Nth Position ... (more) Remember Abu Ghraib?

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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/16/2008

The Right And Abu Ghraib II

— andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — Another trip down memory lane. From Jonah Goldberg in April 2004: Even if all of these pictures... were staged this would be an outrage. The fact that they are real makes this staggeringly awful. The awfulness is twofold. First, there's ... (more) The Right And Abu Ghraib II

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Saddam Hussein

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The final sadistic throes of Darth Cheney: ‘Guantanamo Has Been Well Run’
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Guantanamo is not well-run, and its presence is putting U.S. servicemembers at risk rather than saving lives. As former Navy general counsel Alberto Mora has explained, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are “the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq.” ...

Obama defends choice of Rev. Warren at inauguration: ?We can disagree without being disagreeable.?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation against further attacks like what happened on 9/11 ,” Mr. Cheney said. Cheney insisted that the torture policies he helped craft were “directly responsible for the fact that we’ve been able to avoid or defeat further attacks against the homeland for 7 1/2 years.” Torture has endangered, not protected, American lives. Military experts say that the U.S.’s torture policies have been the single greatest recruiting tool for al Qaeda . A former interrogator who worked in Iraq stated ...