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[quote user="Bob Terry"]Someone, or everyone, is going to wish I would leave this issue alone. Yet I feel so strongly about it I'm truely frustrated I couldn't get into it when it was acceptable to do so. I note that, now, the line on torture is closed....Sorry, folk. I'll stop...
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[quote user="Sandi Saunders"] If you seriously think not investigating and adjudicating the issue will allow the consensus and healing that airing the truth would allow, well, I think you just answered your own question. 150 years from now, this will still be a discussion topic, for us and...
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[quote user="Marvin Foster"] I believe this should end the investigations and prosecution in this matter. According to what I have read (and I am not an expert on this) the actions taken apparently do not constitute war crimes. Also the CIA and military personnel who conducted these investigations...
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[quote user="Luanne Traud"] The Justice Department released Bush administration memos describing brutal interrogation techniques that were permissible for the CIA to use. President Obama said CIA officers who used those techniques would not be prosecuted. Should this end investigations into...
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Can you say 'chain of command'? If the top link of the chain is not held accountable, certainly the lower links should not be held accountable. Feel free to ponder both sides of the torture 'moral' coin, should we or should we not, or to what degree? But don't pass by and glance away...
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(Luanne, this is not an official answer, just some miscellaneous comments.) This will be an interesting question to ponder. To use a weather analogy: The forecast is not good and storms are imminent. It seems that while President Obama allowed for government sunshine with the release of interrogation...
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What do you think of the new president? In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” All Presidents have had some measure of these--but few...
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