15 May 2006

Torture: the means subverts the ends

I sign up for the promotion of democracy and the rights of human beings that the USA is supposed to be about. Shame that much of the world doesn't believe in the USA's rhetoric because things like this happen.
Last week, Amnesty International said 34 detainees died under such U.S. interrogation.

Lord Acton's dictum again ...
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