[..] "Torture is illegal, ineffective and morally wrong. The United States has signed numerous treaties condemning torture and abjuring its practice. Those treaties are the law of the land. And yes, waterboarding is torture: in the past we convicted and punished foreign nationals for torture by waterboarding. There are no legal loopholes permitting torture in "exceptional cases."  After all, those were the same excuses used by the torturers we once condemned." [..] 

In 1947, a petition was being passed by some of the Brooklyn Dodgers stating they would not play with

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Ronald Reagan - An Ugly Truth by TheMelinda Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 11:01:32 PM PDT

It can take many years for those closest to see what really happened. Ronald Reagan went into politics on a lie.  That lie became the tool still being used by the NeoCons today.