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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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Gag.
One, show me actual torture.
Two, show me a terrorist with crucial information, and I'll be more than happy to suggest cutting off the digits of his fingers, excrutiatingly slow, to get that information. If that's torture, so be it.
Three, my country had the "principles " to firebomb hundreds of thousands of CIVILIANS in Germany (killing some relatives of mine in the process) and to nuke the fuck out of Japan, all in all to stop WWII. Pretty damn successful, don't you say.
