Summary
While much of the press was consumed with the tumult about the immigration bills, the gladiators campaigning for the presidency and Paris Hilton, little attention has been paid to the May 10 letter from the plainspoken Gen. David Petraeus to "Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen" in his Multinational Force in Iraq.
Said Petraeus: "Some might argue that we would be more effective if we sanctioned torture or more expedient methods to obtain information from the enemy. That would be wrong.See the full content of this document
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Torture Betrays Our American Ideals
"We are, indeed, warriors. We train to kill our enemies ..." but "what sets us apart from our enemies in this fight, however, is how we behave. In everything we do, we must observe the standards and values that dictate that we treat...
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