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Re: Jack Bauer, where are you?
We shouldn't treat these prisoners like guests at a five star hotel but if they're tortured, do they give factual information? If I was tortured, I would tell my accuser anything to make him stop. 24 doesn't always work in real life. These Muslims don't care about being tortured or killed. They relish in death and this is why they're so difficult to stop. They don't have American psyches. They think just like the Japanese kamikazis.
posted by
WavyDavy
on May 20, 2007 at 3:00 PM
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Jack Bauer, where are you?
That is the stance we need to take. Choose your poison. Do you want the deaths of thousands of people on your conscience because you refused to seek by any means the information that might have prevented their deaths?
Should, God forbid, such a scenario occur, I would lay odds that the people who will most loudly use the occasion to attack their own country will be those who most loudly objected to the information being obtained by unpleasant means.
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WriterofLight
on May 19, 2007 at 8:31 PM
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McCain got it right on Torture
I believe that we shouldn't torture prisoners to get information out of them but
that doesn't mean that we should treat them like guests at a five star hotel either.
posted by
WavyDavy
on May 18, 2007 at 9:25 PM
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