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Eugene Robinson: After the Torture Era

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We will look back on the Bush years and find it incredible, and disgraceful, that individuals were captured in battle or "purchased" from self-interested tribal warlords, whisked to Guantanamo, classified as "enemy combatants" and held for years without charges. We will be ashamed of a government that punished low-level troops for their sadism but exonerated the higher-ups who made such sadism possible.

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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