Torture: Best Pax Posts

"Good Romans" Considered Jesus' Torture Necessary For Imperial Safety

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/when-jesus-was-tortured-good-romans.html

Dick Cheney Admits Preference For Torturing Innocent People If That's What It Takes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/dick-cheney-admits-his-preference-for.html

Why Torture Doesn't Work

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/why-torture-doesnt-work.html

New York Times Calls For Dick Cheney's Prosecution For Torture

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-york-times-calls-for-dick-cheneys.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking Themselves In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianity-bedrock-commitment-to.html

"Why Conservatives Should Oppose Torture"

http://www.infowars.com/why-conservatives-should-oppose-torture/

"Cheney Calls For International Ban On Torture Reports"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/dick-cheney-textbook-definition-of.html

Americans Are 9 Times More Likely To Be Killed By A Policeman Than A Terrorist

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/americans-are-nine-9-times-more-likely.html

The Abu Ghraib torture photos familiar to most Americans are NOTHING like the torture methods used at Uncle Sam's "Black Sites."

The difference is between a "struck matchstick" and "nuclear detonation."

Your tax dollars -- and mine -- pay for Black Site torture, whose victims are sometimes not terrorists at all but people swept up by The Machine for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Black Site

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site

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"The Iraqi Liar Who Started The War. Let's Torture Willing Informants To Get The Truth?
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-iraqi-liar-who-started-war-torture.html

Full Text Of John McCain's Torture Address From Senate Floor
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/full-text-of-john-mccains-anti-torture.html

"The CIA's First Detainee Spent 266 Days In A Box The Size Of A Coffin"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-cias-first-detainee-spent-266-days.html

George Will: "The Torture Of Solitary Confinement"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/george-will-talks-good-sense-on-torture.html


Water Boarding: A Clear Explanation
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/water-boarding-clear-explanation.html

Tom Toles Cartoon: The CIA Torture Report
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/tom-toles-cartoon.html

CIA Torture Report: Most Shocking Passages
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/cia-torture-reports-most-shocking.html

CIA Torture Report: The Three British Plots That The CIA Falsely Cited To Justify Torture

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cia-torture-report-the-three-british-plots-that-the-cia-falsely-cited-to-justify-torture-9914178.html

"Important Takeaways From The CIA's Interrogation Report"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/important-takeaways-from-cia.html

"Torture Report Articles (Great Wonkblog Compendium)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/torture-report-articles-great-wonkblog.html

CIA Torture Report: 'Torture Is A Crime And Those Responsible Must Be Tried'
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/cia-torture-report-torture-is-crime-and.html

"Is The United States Still A Nation Of Law? Bad Cops And Bad Politicians Walk"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-united-states-still-nation-of-law.html

CIA Director, Michael Hayden, Insists On Due Process.... For Himself!

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/cia-director-michael-hayden-insists-on.html

The CIA Torture Manual Was Written By A Pair Of Charlatans

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-cia-torture-manual-was-written-by.html

On Balance, Torture Is Massively Counter-Productive And Self-Destructive

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/on-balance-torture-is-massively.html

Dick Cheney On Torturing Prisoners: "I'd Do It Again In A Minute"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/dick-cheney-on-torturing-prisoners-id.html

"My Client, A Torture Victim"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-client-torture-victim.html

Even If Torture Doesn't Work In The Real World, TV Convinces Us It Does

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/even-if-torture-doesnt-work-in-real.html

The Ethics Of Torture Explored In E.M.Coetzee's Painful Novel

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-ethics-of-torture-explored-in-jm.html

Black Hawk Down Author: "Torture Has Yielded Few Intelligence Gains"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/black-hawk-down-author-torture-has.html

Better Than Torture

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/better-than-torture.html

Torture Doesn't Work. Here's What Does

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/torture-doesnt-work-heres-what-does.html

"CIA Torture Report A Travesty," Charles Krauthammer

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/cia-torture-report-travesty-charles.html

The Torture-Free True Story Of The Best USMC Interrogator In WWII

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-torture-free-true-story-of-best.html

The CIA Torture Report Presents A Real Challenge To American Exceptionalism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-cia-torture-report-poses-real.html

Torture Is Who We Are: A Country, Like A Person, Is What It Does

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/torture-is-who-we-are-country-like.html

The Only CIA Officer In Prison For The Torture Program...

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-only-cia-officer-in-prison-for.html

The "authorities" -- church and state -- are always nearby, drooling.

Dick Cheney On Torturing Prisoners: "I'd Do It Again In A Minute"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/dick-cheney-on-torturing-prisoners-id.html

Before The Vice-President Of The United States Sold His To Satan:
In 1994, Cheney Gave This Lucid Rationale For NOT Invading Iraq. 

Conservatives "Must" See This

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/cheneys-lucid-1996-rationale-for-not.html

"Bush's Toxic Legacy In Iraq"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/bushs-toxic-legacy-in-iraq.html

All for nothing.

Less than nothing.

Burnt offerings on the altar of Bush-Cheney's chest-thumping ego.

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"For misleading the American people, and launching the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them, Bush deserves to be impeached and, once he has been removed from office, put on trial along with the rest of the president’s men. If convicted, they’ll have plenty of time to mull over their sins."

Israeli War Historian, Martin van Creveld, the only non-American on the U.S. Military Officer Corps' required reading list.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/costly-withdrawal-is-price-to-be-paid.html

If I were the guy and she were ISIS...
it'd make me a terrorist.

Reaping what we sow.


It's exactly who we are:

"Good Romans" Considered Jesus' Torture Necessary For Imperial Safety

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/when-jesus-was-tortured-good-romans.html