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The Lesson Of Taguba

By The Daily Dish
Jun 20 2007, 5:07 AM ET

Rude Pundit opines:

What Hersh's article tells us is not just that the decisions about the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib came from the highest levels of the Defense Department (and the Bush administration). It's that the very nature of the men who were creating the policy led naturally to the abuses. It's what they know. It's what they do. It's who they are. For if they can treat an American two-star general like a syphilitic camp follower, what chance did Iraqis have?

The point of torture is always torture.



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