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Does anyone seriously think this sort of thing will cease if and when they win the Presidency? AycharaychThe revolting practice of "rendition" was initiated by dear old Bill Clinton, was it not? His administration did that, while going around trying to sell "democracy, human rights" and other such lofty concepts in the very same countries that were torturing on behalf of the US.
It was the Clinton Adm, before Bush, that felt it was justified to try to bomb Iraq into submission, and his Sec of State (now vouching for his candidate wife) who thought it was "worth it" to let thousands of Iraqi kids suffer the cost of "sanctions".
As I keep saying, when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to all those brown people out there in the rest of the world, the 2 major parties have been one continuum, quite disconnected from the lofty values we like to assign to ourselves domestically.
