Summary
AMERICANS want their nation to be moral and honorable - but this desire is undercut when the White House keeps seeking the right to torture.
First, President Bush started the Iraq war on bogus pretexts. Then the barbaric abuse of detainees in Abu Ghraib military prison was revealed. All the while, White House leaders insisted that they're entitled to violate the Geneva Convention Against Torture. Vice President Dick Cheney became a champion of inflicting cruelty on prisoners. Before he became attorney general, Alberto Gonzales wrote that the Geneva Convention is "quaint."See the full content of this document
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Dishonor: ; Advocating Torture
Under these circumstances, it's hard to insist that America has superior morality. The situation sickened even some ...
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