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'We do not torture,' president says
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08/11/2005 10:54:09
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/07/bush.torture.ap/index.html
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>Yeah right. In the same article it ponts out that over White House opposition, the Senate has passed legislation banning torture. If he's so convinced, why would the oil-office..uhh I mean oval office seek an exemption for the CIA?
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>And oh this was the very next article posted on CNN...
>"Five U.S. soldiers charged with detainee abuse..."
>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/07/iraq.main/index.html

Oh, and something else, just because they refrain from using their favorite tortures (or at least don't admit to it) doesn't mean torture isn't used. I mean, giving certain kinds of torture a different name doesn't really change anything.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3843939.stm
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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