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Torture is wrong, doesn't work and is illegal as the United States has defined it (we handed down the death penalty for Japanese interrogators who used water boarding). If people want they can debate that, but that is our law right now.
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If there are a bunch more pictures showing Americans torturing Iraqis during the war, I don't think there is any reason to release them. From my perspective, we know what we did was wrong and we are working to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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If there is a trial and the pictures are evidence, then the pictures should be shown. If it happens AGAIN after we have changed our policies, then new ones should be shown.
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But don't show old pictures of torture we already agreed we wrong and off base, just to make a point that we did some horrible things. We all know we did horrible things.
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Worse, from my point of view, is that we will be harming the Servicemen and National Guard people who were put in awful situations. Many of them, National Guard volunteers, signed up to protect Americans, not run foreign prisons.
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If you run the pictures, put like inset pictures of Dick Cheney (who is still advocating torture), John Woo(?) the lawyer who wrote the memo's that approved this or Don Rumsfeld - the Secretary of State during the picture taking.
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My 2 cents.