From The National Interest:

Those Republicans who were in government under Ronald Reagan should ask themselves just one question: Would President Reagan condone torture? The answer is self-evident.  He would not.  Reagan won the Cold War without torturing anyone.  Reagan would understand that torture dehumanizes and brutalizes the men and women who carry it out, the organization that orders it and the government that permits it.

Some recent examples of the actual results from torture are revealing. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded by the CIA and wound up confessing to 31 terrorist acts, most of which he could not possibly have carried out.  Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was rendered to the Egyptians, who tortured him. He told interrogators that Al-Qaeda had sent operatives to Iraq for training in biological and chemical weapons, false information which was included in Colin Powell’s unfortunate address to the UN Security Council in February 2003.

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