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Brutality Begets Brutality, That’s Why Torture is Not OK — An American POW’s Story

May 12, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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I’d like the forty-nine percent of Americans who say torture is sometimes justified to hear the story of an American POW who survived a brutal forced march during World War II. My conclusion: Brutality begets brutality. Read more.

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