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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Torture prosecutions finally begin in the U.S.

The Bush DOJ is actually demanding a 147 year sentence for a Liberian political official who ordered torture inside Liberia.

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  • Wednesday, December 31, 2008 06:18 AM

    torture prosecutions

    Bush and Cheney need to be on line for a court appearance regarding torture and many other awful things they did which are most certainly worse than Nixon and Watergate. I don't want them to go scott free. I'd like the media to start talking about Bush and Cheney with the same fervor of disgust as they do when talking about Nixon. Why you might ask because they are worse than most people might know.

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