[news] Tipping Point in Iraq ...

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Posted-Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha Published on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 by 
TomDispatch.com by Dilip Hiro There is no turning back from the Abu Ghraib 
photo scandal. No matter how hard President Bush and his senior aides try, they 
won't be able to restore the last bit of the fig leaf that once covered their 
illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. This is especially true, since the 
recent leaking of a legal brief prepared for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in 
March 2003 arguing that, since the President safeguards national security, any 
ban on torture, even under American law, could not be applied to "interrogation 
undertaken pursuant to the President's commander-in-chief authority."

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