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What about the reports and research that have concluded that in the global War on Terror (2001 - 2008) the United States employed policies of systematic "abuse" (and sometimes expressly called "torture") - and that those policies were authorized by the White House?
Is it really your position that anything closely resembling torture committed by U.S. Forces in the last eight years is the result of "disobeying orders" or going "beyond the standards in handling prisoners"?
My intent isn't to get into another debate of what is or isn't torture. There have been a dozen or more threads on that already. I simply don't think it's a good idea for a past or current president to apologize for the enhanced interrogation techniques used on suspected al Qaeda terrorists. There is nothing to be gained by it and it once again opens up the whole can of worms.