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Originally Posted by sck5
And on waterboarding:
60 years ago we prosecuted and executed for war crimes people who used waterboarding. It is a disgrace to the good name of the USA that we are associated in any way with it. It used to be the case that the good will of the people you were supposedly trying to liberate was considered a military asset. Even apart from that, this is a disgrace on a purely human level.
And the fact that they admitted to three means only that there were AT LEAST three. One thing we know about this issue is that they think it is OK to lie and cover up.
I dont know why ALL republicans arent outraged. Your candidate for President certainly is or at least he was before he started to try to pander to the Republican base. But even so, I have no doubt that Mr. McCain, if he gets in, will put an immediate stop to this and not make excuses. But it shouldnt take actually being tortured to know what the right side of this argument is.
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You didn't take the cake with this one, sck5. You blew the freakin' cake up!
Let's get this straight: You intend to indict GW Bush specifically because he allowed 3 high-value/high-risk enemy agressors to be water-boarded and the analogy you choose to draw is one with a genocidal maniac who, after he gassed Six Million Jews Alone, threw their naked bodies into ditches and burnt them? And then you come up with ONE (1) possible homicide via torture at Abu Ghraib, about which there remains considerable doubt.
Do you write for The New Republic when you're not here?