Thursday, January 7, 2010

Lincoln on Torture

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty–that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions.
Abraham Lincoln's General Orders, 100 Instructions for the government of the armies of the United States in the field.

And does someone want to say that Al Qaeda is a bigger threat to America and Americans than the Civil War was?

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