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Originally posted by taxwonk
An involuntary and tragic response to a clearly unlawful and savage act by terrorists. But that doesn't make torture any less torture.
Don't try and pretty it up. If you're going to advocate abandoning the principles upon which this country was founded, the principles that brought both your ancestors and mine here, to become part of a nation where such acts as torture were clearly recognized as universally wrong, then have the balls to stand up and admit it.
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what principles? when haven't we tortued enemies who have critical information? unless you mean the Clinton and Carter years when our intelligence services were hamstrung and dismantled to avoid "dirty tricks."
