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Dan Eggen, writing for The Washington Post, reports: "President Bush today will veto legislation meant to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics and will argue that the agency needs to use tougher methods than the US military to wrest information from terrorism suspects, administration officials said."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030808Z.shtml



The Water Cure

For The New Yorker, Paul Kramer explores the history of "the water cure," or waterboarding, in US foreign affairs and the American psyche during the early 20th century. He writes: "Many Americans were puzzled by the news, in 1902, that United States soldiers were torturing Filipinos with water. The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030808Y.shtml

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US PRESIDENT BUSH VETOES TORTURE BILL....WATERBOARDING
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding


Informant: goscott44

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Bush The Torturer
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/09/7567/

ACLU Condemns Bush Veto Of Intelligence Bill Preventing Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0308-01.htm

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Dems slam Bush veto on torture ban

Reaction to President Bush's veto Saturday of legislation that would have banned the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists. Bush said the bill would have ended practices that have prevented attacks.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-03-08-bushaddress_N.htm


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