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The last 20 movies I happened to see

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A View to a Kill (1985) Day of the Jackal (1973) The Living Daylights (1987) 21 Grams (2003) You Can't Take It with You (1938) The Libertine (2004) Little Children (2006) The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) The Mikado (1939) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) Flesh and the Devil (1926) (silent) Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974) The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) Toy Story 3 (2010) The Da Vinci Code (2006) The Freshman (1990) The Prince of Tides (1991) Happy Go Lovely (1951) State of Grace (1990) Marlon Brando, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Kirby, Matthew Broderick in The Freshman Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Grayson Russell in Diary of a Wimpy Kid Martyn Green as Ko-Ko in The Mikado (filmed in color) Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil (silent) Edward Fox and Cyril Cusack in Day of the Jackal Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Donald Meeks, Edward Arnold, Spring Byi

Former GWB State Dept Legal Advisor Decries Waterboarding as Torture

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William Taft IV, Chief Legal Adviser to the State Department in the Bush Administration, and, incidentally, great-grandson of President William Howard Taft As George W. Bush admitted to the world unabashedly that he had signed off on waterboarding suspected high-value Al Qaeda operatives, adding that he'd do it again, William Taft IV , former Chief Legal Adviser to the State Department under Colin Powell, spoke frankly on the subject of waterboarding and torture last Friday on BBC 4's afternoon radio program, " The World at One ", condemning it unequivocally: I think it was most unfortunate, both in terms of the reputation of the United States for adhering to the Geneva Conventions , which it had always done and been a strong supporter of them. It put our soldiers at risk of not being treated consistent with them, and it was a breach of our responsibilities to the individual terrorists who, dreadful as they may be, are human beings and should be treated humanely. W