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George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. Jodie Evans

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This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. John Yoo

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I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier. Jonny Bairstow

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If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training? Jose Rodriguez

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I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. Julian Baggini

I think most diets are torture, which is why I don't believe in them. But, as is true with exercise, when you make a change and feel the benefits, you want to stick with it. Khloe Kardashian

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Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!' Kurt Braunohler

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Donald Trump's candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ability of the president to launch nuclear weapons. When it comes to starting a nuclear war, the president has more freedom than he or she does in, say, ordering the use of torture. Lawrence M. Krauss

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One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true. Linda Chavez

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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think. Lisa Kudrow

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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy. Madeline Carroll

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To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture. Malcolm Nance

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I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice. Malcolm Nance

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I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true. Mariah Carey

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Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture. Marty Meehan

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Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture. Mary E. Pearson

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I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture. Melissa Sagemiller

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The CIA held about a hundred detainees from 2002 to 2008; about a third of them underwent interrogations that have been variously described as enhanced, tough or torture. The toughest technique was water boarding, used on three detainees, the last in early 2003. Michael Hayden

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No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. Muqtada al Sadr

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I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does, but artists especially, we torture ourselves. So it's good for me to immerse myself in somebody else's work. Natalie Prass

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