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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.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, December 31, 2008 06:31 AM

    The Shame of Our Reflection in the Mirror

    Every regime's history of established torture practices from Iran to Liberia are now enshrined- America's hidden and transparent, government-backed orgy of hypocrisy the past 7 years- now other nations feel exonerated by their own depravity.

    US policy sates we are abhorred by nations that destroy the minds and bodies of their perceived enemies. What we are really repulsed by is the ugly cruelty we see reflected back at us.

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