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Originally Posted by Ustwo
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...09-28-19-09-50
While I can hear the clicking figers of typed outrage from here, we can now put to rest the whole 'does the president have the power' or 'do terrorists have rights under the constition' argument.
I of course have long advocated the use of torture for terrorists, being that you can't expect people willing to turn themselves into human bombs for the gift of magic virgins from their invisible friend in the sky to give information willingly and it will save innocent lives. Being US methods are not maiming and more along the lines of discomfort I don't shed any tears or feel we left some mythical high road in light of how our enemies treat prisoners.
This is a needed tool in the war on terror, I'm just surprised so many democrats signed on but I'm willing to be that every one of them is up for re-election this year or thinking of running for the presidency in 2008.
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I really think the dems that signed on are the ones that are going to have hell to pay at the polls. I honestly cannot think of a reason why they would have done that.
and again, it's not torturing people who HAVE done something, but people who MAY have done something...or MAY have been indicated by someone else to have done something...or MAY have been a brother of a cousin of a relative of a neice of a mother of a son who happened to have passed a blown up bus at some point.
IE....i do not trust the current guard with whom to torture and extract info from.
host's points about the accelerated inch into miles argument is very well apt here and it honestly makes me sick to my stomach...I just can't conceive of how this bill even got drafted.
as for a 'needed tool'..no, a NEEDED tool in the war on terror would be to actually inspect the cargo coming into this country by ship...that is a NEEDED tool in the war on terror.
I can almost guarantee that this will blow up in the faces of those who signed it.
then again, it will be spun in such a way that all dems are evil and bush is god.