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Originally Posted by Ustwo
If waterboarding and Slimshady is good enough for our people (the waterboarding is part of training), its good enough for terrorists.
I'm sorry, but I thought we were fighting a war here, this isn't a 'nice' thing, and I do not see waterboarding as a big deal as compared to the consequences of prolonged terror attacks. I think under the controlled and limited uses we use it under its perfectly acceptable.
So please, you can cry me a river about it, but I lose no sleep over someone treated as such. They are still able to walk around and talk about it after, unlike the 1000's of civilians they have blown up purposefully.
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I don't know what slimshady has to do with this but I'll just ignore that part. Waterboarding is part of what training. I know the Air Force Para rescue Jumpers and Combat Controllers go through something similar to this, as training for high wind, water bound rescue missions, but surely you wouldn't compare torture for the purpose of extorting predefined answers to voluntary training in the armed services. I don't know, maybe you would.
I don't think that waterboarding is indirectly proportional to the prolonging of terrorist attacks. Can you tell me how you derived this notion?
Also, please enlighten on these 'controlled and limited uses'. I didn't know we were privy to the information regarding how much it has been used, and I'm not sure where I can see the regulation covering its implementation. Unless that regulation says something like:
"Waterboarding is a term developed by the United States government and intended to be used non-interchangeably with normal word 'waterboarding' which means torture. Furthermore, when used by the federal government, from now on, the term shall be used to mean the following: Prisoners are asked to answer a string of questions. For each right answer, we notate and move on to the next question. For each wrong answer, we notate and move on to the next question. Furthermore, prisoners will still be required to provide there full name, service number, and identify their host nation as guided by the Geneva Conventions and Law of Armed Conflict."
That is about the only acceptable definition I can come up with.