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A group of retired flag and general officers visited Obama The Divine to urge him to adopt the Army Field Manual as the one and only standard governing prisoner interrogations. I hope they persuaded him.-- Orville H. Larson
It's one thing to hold Obama's feet to the fire, but it is another to trash him at every turn by pretending that he is in need of being convinced or "persuaded" to do the right thing when has not said that he intends to do anything other than the right thing. Now, the interview of a retired general on Countdown is not The Word on Obama's policy intentions regarding torture, but the general does make himself absolutely clear as to what he believes Obama's intentions are and always have been.
According to the retired general found in the link that RMP posted of a KO interview they didn't visit with Obama "The Divine" to "Urge" him. They spoke with him and then noted to us viewers and listeners that Obama had not wavered from his long held "standard". Which was and has always been that the Army Field Manual is unequivocally the rule on no torture.
