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Any way you rack it, torture is wrong

by Piney Woods Pete | 1, Add your Comment | Apr 26, 2009

torture-1You can rack the word anyway you want, torture is wrong.

And mean, vicious, inhumane techniques like forced enemas, confining a person with biting bugs, water boarding, and driving nails into a man’s hands and feet are torture.

If an enemy of our country commits torture against our forces or our allies that is a crime.

If we commit torture against our enemies, that is a crime.

Politicians and pundits will argue from now until the end of time about whether the torture we imposed on a few of the enemy combatants at Guantanamo resulted in any useful information. No one will win the argument.

I’ll stick with Jesus. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world if he loses his soul?

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One Response to “Any way you rack it, torture is wrong”

  1. LikeTheDew (LikeTheDew) says:
    April 27, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    New blog post: Any way you rack it, torture is wrong http://likethedew.com/2009/04/27/any-way-you-rack-it-torture-is-wrong/

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