“The United States will not torture. The orders that I signed today should send an unmistakable signal that our actions in defense of liberty will be as just as our cause and we, the people, will uphold our fundamental values as vigilantly as we protect our security.”
President Obama, on closing Guantanamo Bay Prison
It’s about damn time. I hope these words are chiseled in stone on a monument someday, so that people remember what America really stands for despite the stain of the last eight years.
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