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this is funny. the trick is that bush administration officials constructed a definition of "harsh interrogation techniques" that are classified them as somehow not torture even though by any standard they are torture---but there's been no prosecution of any of these people for their actions---because of that whole "looking forward" thing---so there's been no legal frame established in the context of which the bush administration's (to my mind) bogus arguments have been demolished.
personally, i would like to see bush and rumsfeld and the yoo and adelman (is that his name? i can't remember) hauled up in front of the international war crimes tribunal. but that won't happen because in reality the only real war crime is losing a war.
and the united states lacks the ethics and/or "political will" to self-correct.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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