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To: bentway who wrote (303342)	9/16/2006 1:57:56 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575615

"The Geneva Conventions have forbidden torture for fifty years. " True. But there wasn't any corresponding US laws until recently. There wasn't a lot of pressure because it was considered a given that the Geneva Conventions be followed to the letter and in its spirit. The military likes it that way. But we have an administration that views the military as tools to be used to further their political goals. Now that isn't all that different from the past, except that at some level there was always the realization that the military consists of people who bleed. And casualties are more than numbers on a page.