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automan9097 months, 3 weeks ago

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Pellosi agreed to the enhanced interrogations.
Those methods are not torture.
Those Japanese were drowning people.
They died.
Nobody was harmed from water boarding, or bugs in a box, or standing against a wall.
American lives were saved from the information that we got from these methods.
The Geneva Convention does not apply to those terrorists because they do not wear uniforms and do not affiliate themselves with a countries armed forces.
That would make them like spies under the Geneva Convention and they could be shot.
YOU are doing the exaggerating with this one donald.

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  sinophil497 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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  automan - That Pelosi may have agreed to the torture is a negative on her record and conscience.
  
  It does NOT mean that waterboardng is not torture. It does NOT mean that what Bush, Cheney,Rumsfeld, Yoo, et al ordered is acceptable.
  
  It does mean they are all guilty to some degree or another.
  
  "Enhanced Interrogation" is simply a euphemism - Washington-speak - for torture. Coming out of a Republican politician's mouth, it would be abhorrent and hypocritical. Coming from you, it simply sounds absurd. You are such a parrot.
  
  More useful information was obtained by FBI agents interrogating al Qaeda prisoners after tending to their wounds and gaining their confidence. After the CIA took over, most of the information was useless or bogus. SOME information was indeed obtained, but even the CIA agents agree they can not say that other methods would not have worked, since they did not try them - or even think about trying them.
  
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