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Malkin Award Nominee

By The Daily Dish
Dec 5 2007, 1:05 AM ET

"I don't care how uncomfortable or terrifying waterboarding may be to the few who deserve it. It's non-lethal, doesn't bruise the skin, break the bones, starve the tummy, or stretch the skeleton -- yet it can open sealed lips," - pro-war blogger, Laer, at "Cheat-Seeking Missiles."

Notice how torture is defended as something some terror suspects deserve. And notice no awareness that torture can open sealed lips to give us false information. The point of torture is always torture.



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