General: Won't Say If Iranian Waterboarding of Americans Would Be Torture


	General: Won't Say If Iranian Waterboarding of Americans Would Be Torture

jklugman

12-14-2007 5:59 AM

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torture, bush administration, iran, waterboarding

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12-16-2007 12:45 PM

cptenaud

Double speak or no speak is what this regime has done all along. The next thing will be baffle us with bull shit.

12-16-2007 1:00 PM

ratilfar

Situational morality can only be stretched so far.

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