1. NO TORTURE. NO EXCEPTIONS.
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Barr, Bob, Bees, Rand, Bergen, Peter, Carter, Jimmy, Cheney, Steve, Chua, Amy, Cizik, Richard, Clark, Wesley K., Cloonan, Jack, Dodd, Chris, Duberstein, Kenneth M., Fair, Eric, Ford, Carl, Gunn, Lee F., Hagel, Chuck, Hamilton, Lee H., Kean, Thomas H., Hart, Gary, Hutson, John, and Kennedy, Claudia
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TORTURE , *POLITICAL corruption , *TERRORISM ,EDITORIALS - Abstract
The authors present several essays calling for the U.S. government to end all use of torture to detainees. They note that over the past decade, voters have had many legitimate worries: stagnant wages, corruption in Washington, terrorism and a botched war in Iraq. But they believe that when Americans look back years from now, what will shame them most is that the country abandoned a bedrock principle of civilized nations which is that torture is without exception wrong.
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- 2008