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Originally Posted by Bucco
1.. I am not one who is FOR torture, however, I think the days and years after 9/11 were unique and I also think this war is unique. I also would rather have my fellow americans alive and be critqued for harsh treatment than to have my fellow americans DEAD and be lauded as a wonderful country because we treated the killers in a kind way.
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I have to agree with Bucco on his point #1 and,
"Those of you who posted your chagrin at the USA "torturing" or being mean to the killers we had at GTMO....You ok with the drones killing innocent villagers in Afghanastan ? If so, how do you reconcile that ?"
In my first post, that WAS my point- there is a real moral difficulty with justifying drones and criticizing the Bush Adminstration's torture policies. I know we'll just disagree on this, but how can using an "enhanced" interrogation technique be said to work if it's used 183 times? Not twice, not a dozen, not 100 times. Either it
didn't work, which is why they had to keep doing it in the hope of getting answers, or it
did work, in which case it shouldn't have taken 183 times to get the answers they were looking for. It was torture, plain and simple.
If we had waterboarded Cheney or Rumsfeld, do you think it would have taken 183 times until they admitted that they cooked and cherry-picked their rationale for attacking Iraq? I doubt it, because their decision-making process had no morality in it when they equated 9/11 and Al Queda with Saadam's regime.