<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[When The Washington Post Calls Waterboarding &#8220;Torture&#8221;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[
<p>When it&#39;s done by the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/31/AR2009033100780.html?hpid=topnews&amp;sub=AR">Khmer Rouge</a>:</p>
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<p>His victims &#8212; most of whom were either disgraced members of the Khmer Rouge or their families &#8212; were tortured with electric shocks, waterboarding or beating to extract a confession, which would implicate new victims&#8230; Among the four forms of torture he officially condoned, they said, was pouring water up victims&#39; noses.  </p>
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<p>Note also that repeated beatings are also put in the &quot;torture&quot; category, another technique that the Washington Post does not describe as torture when authorized by president Bush. It&#39;s rare you see a leading newspaper reveal that it has one set of moral standards for non-Americans and another one for the people they socialize with. </p>
<p>Remember: we don&#39;t torture. When Bush said that he meant: when we do it, it&#39;s not torture. And the WaPo and the AP and the NYT&#39;s news divisions agree. </p>
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