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To: Road Walker who wrote (263660)	12/8/2005 2:44:35 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574123

I would bet 95% of the military officials are against it, but believe it happens 5% to 2% of the time. Always seems to involve making a prisoner be nude on a board that's not horizontal. Really disturbing to learn that some engage in this. However, I think most military officials are very, very much against torture. Btw, Rice is a friend of a mentor of mine, so tend to think she's doing the best she can do - I would tend to believe there is something beyond her control in the system that creates torture. It seems it's there for any country that goes to war - the question is, why? I read that 3% of the USA population are criminals - maybe some criminals have worked their way into the military and lack the intelligence to get the information they need without violence. Didn't a military report say that 25% of all military women were raped or something horrible like that while they are in the military? RE: "Speaking of silly masquerades, who does Judge Samuel Alito Jr. think he's fooling by presenting himself as a reasonable jurist? Here's a guy whose entire career seems to be based on interfering with women's lives. He wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade, condoned the strip search of a 10-year-old girl and belonged to a conservative alumni club that resisted the admission of women to Princeton. All in all, a bad week for women - sheer torture to watch." Sure can say that again. But there's more issues beyond the abortion obsession that this country needs to address for women. Women's rights go beyond these basic 101 rights.