Paul Rieckhoff is the Executive Director for IAVA and in yesterday’s New York Times, Paul Rieckhoff called on the Senators to stand their ground and reject a compromise with the Bush Admininistration about new legislation that would allow the United States to reinterpret the standards of detainee treatment under the Geneva Conventions.
Here’s an excerpt:
My soldiers and I learned the hard way that policy at the point of a gun cannot, by itself, create democracy. The success of America’s fight against terrorism depends more on the strength of its moral integrity than on troop numbers in Iraq or the flexibility of interrogation options.
You can read the rest of the op-ed piece on the IAVA blog.
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But without torture, the only way we’ll be able to get totally unreliable intelligence data is to fabricate it from scratch!
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