Retired 4-stars repudiate Cheney on torture

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Posted : Saturday Sep 12, 2009 13:03:29 EDT

Former Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Charles C. Krulak and former commander of Central Command Gen. Joseph P. Hoar have spoken out against former Vice President Dick Cheney and his support for “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., the retired generals stepped forward in an editorial in “The Miami Herald” to denounce the interrogation techniques, which they called torture, as well as Cheney’s “scare tactics” on the matter.

“What leaders say matters,” Krulak and Hoar wrote in the editorial. “So when it comes to light, as it did recently, that U.S. interrogators staged mock executions and held a whirling electric drill close to the body of a naked, hooded detainee, and the former vice president winks and nods, it matters.”

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