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Cheney: We Do Torture

By Big Tent Democrat

pActually, Cheney says a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6464697page=1""we don't do torture."/a However, a few questions later he contradicts himself:/p blockquotepKARL: And on KSM (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed), one of those tactics, of course, widely reported was waterboarding. And that seems to be a tactic we no longer use. Even that you think was appropriate?/p pCHENEY: I do./p/blockquote pIn case you are wondering a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/10/waterboarding-is-torture-perio/"waterboarding has been considered torture for thousands of years/a. It violates a href="http://64.233.169.132/search?q=cache:IAanPvFUYrAJ:www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL32438.pdf+UN+Convention+on+Torture+US+lawhl=enct=clnkcd=7gl=usclient=firefox-a"US law/a. It is a crime. Not just a war crime, but also a violation of US criminal law. Cheney has admitted to committing this crime. In our names. And our Congress knew and did nothing. This stain will not wash out./p pSpeaking for me only/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=3xRDpJZK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=iXZc6uKB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=83Y4RS9V"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?i=83Y4RS9V" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=0aZYk4YI"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=MS8Vl8KV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=52" border="0"/img/a /div

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).