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This is the headline a Voice of America article<\/a> gave to a story on the New York Times’ article<\/a> yesterday on how the Pentagon realizes that prison abuses in Afghanistan are fueling the Taliban. <\/p>\n

Life is unfair. You beat a few innocent prisoners to death – hanging them from the ceiling by chains, etc. – and then all of a sudden, you are smeared with a permanent bad rap. <\/p>\n

Actually, we have no idea how many innocent prisoners have been murdered in Afghan prisons. The U.S. government has kept its crimes there covered up far better than it did at Gitmo. <\/p>\n

After 7 years of such abuses, the Pentagon suddenly realizes that the bad PR from torture can boomerang on American forces.<\/p>\n

If only George W. and Cheney had known…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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