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Festivito

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12. We have monstrous tools, perform monstrous acts, and become what we hated.

Reply to Kelvin Mace (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 4, 2013, 08:01 AM

Feb 2013

We seem no longer strong enough to be free and brave, and our leaders, no better, do not think we deserve to be free or brave.

It is a sad state.

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Panetta: Enhanced interrogation did not lead to bin Laden [View all] jpak Feb 2013 OP

Didn't we already know that torture doesn't work before Bush took office? sakabatou Feb 2013 #1

It's called torture, Leon. (n/t) Iggo Feb 2013 #2

"I think we could have gotten bin Laden without that." Festivito Feb 2013 #3

When you use the tools of monsters Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #6

We have monstrous tools, perform monstrous acts, and become what we hated. Festivito Feb 2013 #12

Zero Dark Thirty is propaganda of the "why we fight" genre azurnoir Feb 2013 #4

The fact that you won't call it torture Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #5

Torture!!!! Not "Enhanced Interrogation"... Moral Compass Feb 2013 #7

Torture is a method of questioning The Second Stone Feb 2013 #8

We all know 'Enhanced Interrogation' did happen Franker65 Feb 2013 #9

That is a movie, this is a TV interview, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2013 #10

Because calling it what it is - torture - would harm America's beautiful mind. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #11

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