running the Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth century Europe and now it's a Gitmo specialty.American army officials have been loath to call waterboarding a form of torture. They dance around the description and say that while it's surely uncomfortable, it can't really be called torture. That's what a democracy is all about, I suppose.
from Fatima Bhutto: The News International Pakistan: The road to Guantanamo
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Anyone who thinks gitmo and waterboarding don't signify the end of the real American dream is crazy.
Jefferson spins in his grave.
"I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
Nowadays, these reports would get him declared an 'enemy', huh?
-blue
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