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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [qb] Has the report that came out from the Human Rights Lawyers association (whatever it was they were actually called) about the hundred-odd deaths of Iraqi/Afghan detainees in US custody, at least 10 of which were directly down to torture, been covered in the US media at all? [/qb][/QUOTE]No. And dont expect it to be either because the [i]official[/i] line [i]now[/i] is...that he [URL=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-apentagon22feb22,0,7484110.story]recinded [/URL] the use of controversial interrogation techniques for detainees at Guantanamo Bay in early 2003 because he had learned that Pentagon lawyers thought some of them were illegal and[i] verged[/i] on torture. [QUOTE][b] "We didn't want to be doing something that people had concerns about in the department," Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news conference.[/QUOTE][/b] So, as you can plainly read, Rumsfeld (that great civil rights advocate) put an end to all that potential "torture" nonsense over three years ago. Nothing to see here- move along. Those prisoners died of natural causes. [i]Really.[/i] Also of great hilarity (buried waaay in the back of the newspaper and not covered by CNN [i]at all[/i]). [URL=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-rumsfeld,0,2778384.story]Whoops![/URL] [QUOTE][b]Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing its practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, withdrawing his earlier claim that it had been stopped. Rumsfeld told reporters he was [i]mistaken[/i] in the earlier assertion. [/b][/QUOTE]Remember that- the administration does not lie to the public- it's only been caught "[i]mistaken[/i] in the earlier assertion" several dozen times. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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