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A Corrosive Stain On The US Soul : Information Clearing House - ICH

A Corrosive Stain On The US Soul : Information Clearing House - ICH: "I grew up believing that Americans did not torture prisoners, as Hitler's and Stalin's agents did. There were rogue episodes of American brutality, but to make torture a national policy? Unthinkable.

No one should be in any doubt that torture was what President Bush had in mind. No one should be fooled by Orwellian talk of 'enhanced interrogation techniques.'"

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