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WillieW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 01:51 PM
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AG Nominee declares waterboarding to be torture
Edited on Thu Jan-15-09 02:10 PM by WillieW

WASHINGTON – Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. forcefully broke from the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies Thursday, declaring that waterboarding is torture and pledging to prosecute some Guantanamo Bay detainees in U.S. courts.

It was the latest signal that President-elect Barack Obama will chart a new course in combatting terrorism. As recently as last week, Vice President Dick Cheney defended waterboarding, a harsh interrogation tactic that simulates drowning, saying it provided valuable intelligence

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20090115/cm_thenation/45397547_1
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 02:04 PM
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1. And keep repeating: WE PUT JAPANESE SOLDIERS
TO DEATH for waterboarding after WWII. Maybe it will sink in when freepers claim it's not torture.
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-15-09 02:36 PM
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2. I like the way that
sounds. What a refreshing change.
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