We do not torture!

Except when we do. The guilt staining our national soul will not be easy to expunge, but we can at least start the process by closing Gitmo. I'm not holding my breath (unless they waterboard me).

Guantanamo Force-Feeding Tactics Are Called Torture

Lawyers for a captive at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say their client was tortured to coerce him into abandoning a lengthy hunger strike, and they contend that tactics used to force-feed detainees explicitly violate a new federal law that bars cruel or degrading treatment of people in U.S. custody.

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