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Senator McCain: Torture is Wrong
by True Majority, US Action, Catholics United, SOA Watch

Click here to watch the video and sign the petition to Sen. John McCain!

Yesterday a military judge overseeing the first war crimes trials at Guantanamo refused to consider evidence obtained in "highly coercive environments and conditions." So now not only is information acquired through torture unreliable and immoral, it's also useless.

In 2005, Senator John McCain led the effort to ban any US military personnel from engaging in torture. Since then, something has changed. Earlier this year, Sen. McCain voted against that very same torture ban. Sen. McCain has also not made a commitment to close the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC), despite the Pentagon admission that the school had used training manuals that advocated torture, extortion, blackmail and the targeting of civilian populations.

For years now, the Supreme Court has been steadily rolling back George Bush's abuses of executive power. Now, it's time for the Congress to reclaim its role of checks and balances and stand up to the Bush administration. We need a bipartisan consensus in Congress against any branch of the US government practicing torture.

Watch this video from Joshua Casteel, a former military interrogator. Then join Joshua and call on Sen. McCain to lead his party by bringing an end to torture in all circumstances.
http://www.TrueMajority.org/NoTorture

Nov. 21-23: Converge on Fort Benning, Georgia!

From November 21-23, the annual November vigil at the gates of Fort Benning will follow the presidential election by two weeks. It will be an opportunity for the progressive movement to set an agenda against oppressive U.S. policy, whatever the result of that election is.
Click here to download the November Organizing Packet.


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