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Interesting that some in the media are happy to use terrorist videos of captives pleading for their lives and the end of the Iraq war etc (obviously under coercion) but denounce life saving information received under what they term torture.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I agree, the first thing one has to do in order to have an intellegent arguement on the subject is to define the term torture.
PreacherMike 2009
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Such a conversation might also begin by examining the reigning assumption of today's debate: that context and circumstances have nothing to say about what we call torture.
Archive 2009-02-01 Matt Johnston 2009
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BLITZER: You don't need to do what -- what he called torture.
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Such a conversation might also begin by examining the reigning assumption of today's debate: that context and circumstances have nothing to say about what we call torture.
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Now that light has begun to shine on the Bush Administration's seek-to-destroy-detainees-will strategy the former dissenter from within the Bush White House believes he must speak of what he classifies as torture.
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He says he stands by that, saying he saw all the pictures and video says he didn't see what he called torture.
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But says his prison memories are still vivid, memories of what he describes as torture.
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Guantanamo detainees say they were subjected to an unusual form of what they call torture.
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I f any of you commentators live in L A you may be walking around today because of the success of enhanced interrogation or what you call torture.
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