Barack Obama
The Public Record
When I am president America will once again be the country that stands up to these deplorable tactics.
The secret authorization of brutal interrogations is an outrageous betrayal of our core values, and a grave danger to our security.
I will not be a President who sends our Guard off to fight in a misguided war, while telling America's governors to hope that a big snowstorm won't hit next winter, or that a tornado won't come through town.
No more failures to plan, to communicate down the chain of command, or to reset the equipment that we've left in Iraq.
It's time to tell the world that America rejects torture without exception or equivocation.
Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.





