The reason I respect Republicans

[George_Washington]

If our official policy is to torture others we can hardly complain about it.

When has that ever been our, "official policy" ?

 

[shuamort]

When has that ever been our, "official policy" ?

An Aug. 1, 2002, memo from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, addressed to Gonzales, said that torturing suspected al Qaeda members abroad "may be justified" and that international laws against torture "may be unconstitutional if applied to interrogation" conducted against suspected terrorists.

In the view expressed by the Justice Department memo, which differs from the view of the Army, physical torture "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." For a cruel or inhuman psychological technique to rise to the level of mental torture, the Justice Department argued, the psychological harm must last "months or even years."


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Here are Gonzales actual memos (all PDF files):
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[George_Washington]

Well, regardless, I still hate to see our soldiers be harmed in any way and I don't think people give them enough support when they are.

About Mcain...he probably won't get the Republican endorsement just because he is a lot more moderate than most Republicans would want him to be. I personally don't agree with him on campain finance reform. However, I do respect him as a person. The poor guy spent 5 years in a Vietnamese prison. I don't think any of us can imagine what that must have been like. It's amazing he got through it.