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ace, darling, it's fine that you personally don't think that waterboarding is torture. what's important is that your opinion has nothing to do with the legal situation that defines torture. what's even more important is that people who think the way you do are no longer in power. and more than that is that those people who were in power and who formulated policy based on thinking like yours should face prosecution. and i personally would hope that they'd pay a heavy price for that policy. and if you were among those people, i would be hoping that you faced significant criminal charges for implementing policy based on your way of thinking.
but that thinking divorced from power is not interesting. i think you have no coherent arguments and that your politcally motivated interest in systematically refusing to accept any criticism of the bush administration bespeaks more a psychological situation than a loss of moral compass. because without the power to implement policy, your moral compass is your problem.
i just hope you don't imagine waterboarding to be so removed from torture that you'd try it on your dog. but i don't think you'd treat your dog that way.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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