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Rationalizing Torture

Brian2580 Wrote: Aug 28, 2009 1:50 AM
A time may come, maybe sooner than you think, when one of your less stable brothers or sisters on the lunatic fringe who proudly proclaim their status as a "right wing terrorist" will pop off and so something extremely stupid. You have a history of it. It would not be surprising if it happens. At this point you are going to wish dearly that you stood up for the rights of these poor "ragheads" that you now demean. Your rights as Americans will need to be protected over our rights of the left to protect ourselves from some unforeseen future attack. It was an American boy who popped off and killed innocent children in Oklahoma City. It is your rhetoric here that is creating the next Timothy McVeigh. Hopefully the government won't decide to...

Americans are practical people, which is why they tend to pay heed when Dick Cheney says the harsh methods used by the CIA on suspected terrorists were not merely efficacious but indispensable. The intelligence derived from these interrogations, he assures us, "saved lives and prevented terrorist attacks."

Did they really? The report released Monday, done by the CIA's inspector general back in 2004, didn't support Cheney's claim. It said "there is no doubt" that the detention and questioning of detainees "has been effective."

But the report reached no judgment on "enhanced interrogation techniques," saying, "The effectiveness of particular...

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