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Originally Posted by Willravel
Torture isn't ever the most reliable method of extracting information (according to the experts, which have been cited in non-pub discussion threads time and again), therefore you waterboarding someone wouldn't be you trying your best to save American lives. It'd be you acting, as JJ said above, on emotion instead of logic. Logic dictates you use the method with the highest probability of success. Emotion means you fly off the handle and get people killed.
You're creating a hypothetical situation that can't happen in order to support your position.
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Listen, you are going around thinking that the powers that be are going around just grabbing people willy nilly and waterboarding them to get them to confess to things we want them to confess to. The truth is, after everything else has been done, we are waterboarding people that we already know that they have information that can save American lives. Then we waterboard them to get that information. How can anyone object to that.
If I knew that someone had information that could help save an American, I would waterboard them in a heartbeat. Anyone who wouldn't do that is selfish. They would be holding their own belief system higher than a countryman's life.
And beside, this false outrage over waterboarding is all moot. Its been done to only three people. And the information we got out of it is still classified by Obama. Which goes to show that it does work, or the information gotten out of them would be relased to show its uselessness.