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Land Shark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 11:59 PM
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7. touche' - kudos but do you know who first said that truism? I can't recall nt
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  -When We Torture: The Dept for Taking Down America's Worldwide Reputation (NYT Kristof) Land Shark  Feb-17-08 09:03 PM   #0 
  - For centuries America's had this moral leadership --- why abandon it now? K&R nt  2 Much Tribulation   Feb-17-08 09:08 PM   #1 
  - So true -- Lincoln gave special orders not to mistreat confederate troops, as did Gen. Washington...  Land Shark   Feb-17-08 09:22 PM   #2 
     - Rommel was so admired by the Allied troops in North Africa, that  KCabotDullesMarxIII   Feb-18-08 05:40 AM   #10 
  - Torture is the most heinous thing one person  shraby   Feb-17-08 09:36 PM   #3 
  - & among most heinous a country can do - the tortured may well be innocent, the torturer never is  2 Much Tribulation   Feb-17-08 10:58 PM   #6 
     - touche' - kudos but do you know who first said that truism? I can't recall nt  Land Shark   Feb-17-08 11:59 PM   #7 
  - K & R;d  stellanoir   Feb-17-08 09:45 PM   #4 
  - concisely, succinctly and truthfully put, Stella. Thanks for calling spades spades.... nt  Land Shark   Feb-17-08 10:04 PM   #5 
     - I felt the same, Paul. It's bit like reviling concentration camps -  KCabotDullesMarxIII   Feb-18-08 05:30 AM   #9 
  - any torture is too much torture, kick.... nt  2 Much Tribulation   Feb-18-08 01:25 AM   #8 
  - Thanks. K & R>  L. Coyote   Feb-18-08 07:07 AM   #11 
  - I hope America can get its soul back.  mwb970   Feb-18-08 07:48 AM   #12 
  - Its soul is still there & always will be but we gotta UPHOLD it (think: Oaths of office) nt  Land Shark   Feb-18-08 08:51 AM   #13 
  - Mr. al-Hajj's crime was that he photographed the results of a U.S. massacre in Iraq  Time for change   Feb-18-08 10:27 AM   #14 
  - k&r. History is going to look back on this period as one of the darkest ever,  robinlynne   Feb-18-08 10:45 AM   #15 
  - I believe you're quite right about that, robinlynne. thanks for stating the truth. nt  Land Shark   Feb-18-08 01:20 PM   #17 
     - hiya LandShark!  robinlynne   Feb-18-08 05:20 PM   #18 
  - Will they ever forgive us.  alfredo   Feb-18-08 10:55 AM   #16 
  - What's your best guess?  Land Shark   Feb-18-08 06:27 PM   #19 
  - Let me think a bit  alfredo   Feb-19-08 05:55 PM   #22 
  - If what we do to others was done to your child, spouse, sibling, parent...  LynnTheDem   Feb-18-08 06:29 PM   #20 
     - Hell no.  alfredo   Feb-19-08 05:54 PM   #21 
  - No words to express my horror.  BushDespiser12   Feb-19-08 05:58 PM   #23 
  - "We do not torture." GW Bush.  Disturbed   Feb-19-08 06:11 PM   #24 
  - Torture is tyrannical and an act of terror. What we have become,...is an evil rather than,...  sicksicksick_N_tired   Feb-19-08 06:21 PM   #25 
 

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