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Atticus Grinch
At least we're clear --- the Right Side thinks torture IS justified. There's no hair-splitting about what happened at Abu Ghraib or to Lindh, because you're saying it's okay even if it was the worst thing we imagined. All I wanted to know was whether you'd admit it was policy. Now we know: if it was policy, you're proud of it and your Administration is ashamed.
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1) Stop barking such hyperbole. No one has made any such balnket statements (unless the Right Side is comprised solely of G. Gordon Liddy)
2) Kepp refusing to split-hairs, but it is apparent that certain forms of interrogation were policy in Afghanistan and were not policy in Iraq.
That there was a break in the adminstration of such policies is evidence in a failing in the system subject to review and, where necessary, punishment to individuals or failure to comply.
3) I still think the word "torture" - despite attempts to classify it in the GC and other treatises - is a subjective one and one that can never have an absolute definition.
