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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 06:08 PM
Original article: Sympathy for Charles Graner

Sympathy? No one EVER deserves to be tortured--not even a person guilty of torture.

How can Graner, or anyone else for that matter, be treated so inhumanely? If he was found guilty because HE tortured, aren't his current guards also guilty because THEY torture?

We, as Americans, can never expect to restore even a modicum of respect from the rest of the world until we demonstrate our complete repudiation of torture by trying and punishing all who were involved. This would include Bush, Cheney, and all their thugs who ordered and supported the torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, as well as other dark holes not yet reported. We cannot allow them to go scot free just because it might look as though one party is simply trying to hurt the other party.

Did we learn nothing from Nuremburg?

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