1.0 link 192306 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-margolis/make-the-torturers-face-j_b_192306.html I have learned the following truths covering dirty "pacification" wars in Algeria, Indochina, Central and South America, southern Africa, the Mideast, Afghanistan, and Kashmir in which torture was widely used:

Nations that use torture disgrace themselves. Armed forces and police that torture inevitably become brutalized and corrupted. "Limited" use of torture quickly becomes generalized. "Information" obtained by torture is mostly unreliable.

In spite of all the historical evidence that torture is counter-productive, the Bush administration...

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