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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 08:37 PM
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these two stories trouble me....
call me cynical....

Abu Ghraib now a humane prison, Iraq officials say
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.abughraib/index.html

Guantanamo meets Geneva Convention standards, Pentagon study finds
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-guantanamo21-2009feb21,0,2083521.story
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 08:41 PM
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1. "Iraqi officials say" and "Pentagon study finds" = "Nixon says he's not a crook"
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 08:41 PM
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2. the titles alone trouble me
sounds like sweep it under the rug bullshit propaganda. and i didn't read the articles. am i close?
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 08:44 PM
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3. I wonder if a study of Gitmo conducted when the Bush Administration was torturing ...
... would give the same result.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 08:46 PM
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4. if we're closing it down, what's the point of this 'report'? whitewash?
:shrug:
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 11:14 PM
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6. Probably. But, timing is important.
When was the investigation begun?

Who asked for it to be started and why was it started when it was?
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-22-09 09:53 PM
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5. kick
one time
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