In a 2004 memo for the Navy inspector general's office, then-General Counsel Alberto J. Mora objected to the ideas that cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment could be allowed at Guantanamo and that the president's authority is virtually unlimited.
Using the Justice Department, these Republicans insisted that the President's ultimate authority as Commander in Chief overrode such statutes against torture. So--our torture of prisoners was obviously ordered by our Republican President.
Our advisaries in the world can now claim justification for torturing our people that they capture, and we became a nation that tortures our prisoners.
They didn't think it through just like when they ordered the invasion and war on Iraq which had no part in the attack on us. All they saw was a country that had been bombed into weakness and thus was vunerable.
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