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Old 12-05-2008, 11:46 PM
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Torture has not kept us safer -- au contraire

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802242_pf.html

excerpt:

I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse.

Video interview on FOX.
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