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	<title>a believer's journal &#187; torture</title>
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		<title>turning the page on torture</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2009/04/28/turning-the-page-on-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enhanced interrogation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is sad that it has taken a change in administration to begin to turn the page on torture. A categorical ban on torture is an American value, not a debatable value of one party or another. Perhaps we were in so deep that there was no way out &#8230; other than repentance. And repentance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>national day of witness to ban torture</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/11/15/national-day-of-witness-to-ban-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/11/15/national-day-of-witness-to-ban-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious leaders urge President-elect Obama to ban torture]]></description>
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		<title>ask the next president to ban torture</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/09/25/ask-the-next-president-to-ban-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/09/25/ask-the-next-president-to-ban-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human_rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three organizations (The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Evangelicals for Human Rights, and The Center for Victims of Torture) are spearheading a joint effort to urge the next president to issue an executive order banning the use of torture by any entity representing the United States. Such an act, in and of itself, could go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jimmy carter speaks out on torture</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/03/10/jimmy-carter-speaks-out-on-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2008/03/10/jimmy-carter-speaks-out-on-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Jimmy Carter urges an unambiguous prohibition against the practice of torture. Until recent years the United States has been in the forefront of condemning torture and indefinite detention without trial as fundamental violations of human rights. The Geneva Conventions are held as the unquestioned standard for the treatment of prisoners of war. I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>torture is not a partisan issue</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/11/06/torture-is-not-a-partisan-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/11/06/torture-is-not-a-partisan-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interrogation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war-crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Torture is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of conscience. It&#8217;s not about citing extreme circumstances, but about applying a universal standard of human ethics. It&#8217;s not about finding ways to win the war on terrorism, but about not losing our souls in the process. Torture is not a partisan issue. Consider the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mary pipher takes a stand</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/08/29/mary-pipher-takes-a-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/08/29/mary-pipher-takes-a-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interrogation_techniques]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mary Pipher, a prominent psychologist and author, recently returned a Presidential Citation award she had received from the American Psychological Association, in protest over the Association&#8217;s endorsement of its members&#8217; participation in CIA interrogations. Her gesture makes a symbolic and largely personal statement against the increasing tolerance by this nation&#8217;s leaders of &#8220;enhanced interrogation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>moral outrage</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/30/moral-outrage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/30/moral-outrage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 14:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 28 headline: &#8216;Tortured&#8217; prisoners freed from Iraq hideout US and Iraqi forces freed 42 Iraqis &#8220;some of whom had been held and tortured for months&#8221; in a raid on an al-Qaida prison in Iraq, the US military said &#8230; US officials said the hostages were kept in a small, concrete and mud compound and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>general petraeus&#8217; letter to the troops</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/12/general-petraeus-letter-to-the-troops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/12/general-petraeus-letter-to-the-troops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 02:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[general_petraeus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human_dignity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is good, very good, to hear General Petraeus talk about dignity, respect, and integrity, values, law, and doing what is right. It is good to hear him take an unequivocal stand against torture, both because it is wrong and because it serves no useful purpose. It is good to hear him emphasize the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>disheartened, but not surprised</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/04/disheartened-but-not-surprised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/05/04/disheartened-but-not-surprised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 02:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Troops Say Torture OK is the title of an article posted at Military.com. The article discusses a report released today by the Army Medical Department detailing the results of a study of American service personnel in Iraq. Among the findings of the report: More than a third of those surveyed believe torture should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sadly, this is who we have become</title>
		<link>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/25/sadly-this-is-who-we-have-become/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firstcongucc.org/weblog/2007/04/25/sadly-this-is-who-we-have-become/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interrogation_techniques]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the trailer for a new film documentary, Taxi to the Darkside, chronicling the fundamental shift in our government&#8217;s attitude toward and acceptance of what are euphemistically called &#8220;alternative interrogation techniques,&#8221; or more plainly called, torture. And here is another trailer for an HBO documentary investigating the abuse of detainees at Abu Graib.]]></description>
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