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In the North Carolina woods

Submitted by James Protzman on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 3:15pm.

Of all the assaults on decency perpetrated by Republicans in the name of country, none compares to their blithe use of torture to extract information from god-forsaken prisoners. In a chilling article in the August edition of Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens writes about his decision to choose to experience waterboarding in an undisclosed location in western North Carolina. Toward the end of the article, he says:

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

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