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I occasionally hear snippets of conversation about how the United States isn't actually torturing people, it's just humiliating them.

This would come as a great surprise to the 25 or so people who've been tortured to death by the United States (in Iraq; I don't know how many people have been tortured to death elsewhere in the New Model Gulag). This would come as a great surprise to the people who've been waterboarded (which is a polite way to say "tie someone to a bed and drop it into water"). This would come as a great surprise to the people who've been raped, or doused with water and left outside in the freezing cold, or had dogs set on them.

I guess it must be a blessing to be free of the ravages of intelligence. I just wish they wouldn't be so blatant about it.

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Lots of charges, where's your proof or links to proof?

Mike Thu Sep 23 13:36:43 2004

There's a spiffy web invention called a search engine that will let you look up details like this all by yourself.

David Parsons Thu Sep 23 13:55:56 2004

I, like our host, am a believer in getting off your ass and doing some work for yourself, but why not start at http://www.hrw.org/? Oh, and http://www.amnestyusa.org/ isn't bad either. Have fun.

W Thu Sep 23 21:09:41 2004

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