Comments on: Add Your Name to the List of Those That Oppose Water Torture http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/add-your-name-to-the-list-of-those-that-oppose-water-torture/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:40:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mdking http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/add-your-name-to-the-list-of-those-that-oppose-water-torture/#comment-2029 mdking Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:39:20 +0000 http://writechic.wordpress.com/?p=624#comment-2029 So is fighting against it. From the article: <em>Philadelphia based reformer Herbert "Welsh emerged as a single-minded campaigner for the exposure and punishment of atrocities, running an idiosyncratic investigation out of his Philadelphia offices. As one who “professes to believe in the gospel of Christ,” he declared, he felt obliged to condemn “the cruelties and barbarities which have been perpetrated under our flag in the Philippines.” Only the vigorous pursuit of justice could restore “the credit of the American nation in the eyes of the civilized world.”</em> Imagine Pat Robertson or James Dobson making such a statement. So is fighting against it.

From the article:

Philadelphia based reformer Herbert “Welsh emerged as a single-minded campaigner for the exposure and punishment of atrocities, running an idiosyncratic investigation out of his Philadelphia offices. As one who “professes to believe in the gospel of Christ,” he declared, he felt obliged to condemn “the cruelties and barbarities which have been perpetrated under our flag in the Philippines.” Only the vigorous pursuit of justice could restore “the credit of the American nation in the eyes of the civilized world.”

Imagine Pat Robertson or James Dobson making such a statement.

]]> By: loomisnews http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/add-your-name-to-the-list-of-those-that-oppose-water-torture/#comment-2027 loomisnews Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:03:17 +0000 http://writechic.wordpress.com/?p=624#comment-2027 But torture is as American as Apple Pie! See some of the history outlined from the Filipino Insurrection at the turn of the century. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/25/080225fa_fact_kramer But torture is as American as Apple Pie!

See some of the history outlined from the Filipino Insurrection at the turn of the century.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/02/25/080225fa_fact_kramer

]]> By: redeye http://writechic.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/add-your-name-to-the-list-of-those-that-oppose-water-torture/#comment-2026 redeye Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:46:38 +0000 http://writechic.wordpress.com/?p=624#comment-2026 Not so fast....we might need to water torture Rove and company in order to get information out of them since they refuse to "co-operate" with Congress. Not so fast….we might need to water torture Rove and company in order to get information out of them since they refuse to “co-operate” with Congress.

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