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What prominent conservative commentators have said about prisoner abuse

What prominent conservative commentators have said about prisoner abuse[W]e now know that many of the shocking images from Abu Ghraib that we’ve been allowed to see […] have occurred elsewhere in Iraq, Guantanamo, and Afghanistan; and in many instances they reflect nothing more than official United States policy. How we respond, whether conservative, libertarian, liberal or other, will tell us a lot about what we’ve become.