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American Sponsored Torture

 

...The truth is plain, this current administration, condones torture.  Memos recently released provide evidence that as the invasion of Iraq was beginning, military officials at the Pentagon, were calling for strong tactics to be used in the interrogation of prisoners...                       

 

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The Earthquake at the Democratic National Convention

 

I have always chuckled at the acronym for the Democratic National Convention, and imagine that many Republicans do likewise, DNC is similar to the medical acronym of D&C which signifies an abortion.  Recent conventions have been vacuous exercises in demagoguery...                                   

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"Mr. President we love America not because all of us have seen the beauty

all the time, but we believed if we kept working, if we kept on marching, if

we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America

beautiful for everybody."      

                                                                    

Excerpt from the Rev. Al Sharpton address before the Democratic National Convention, Boston July 28, 2004

 

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