Letters to the Editor
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Why we torture
Our government has advanced many reasons to justify its need for 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and they can all be ignored.
Forget the experts who say that torture gets you bogus information. It only gets you the information the victim thinks you want to hear.
Our government engaged in torture precisely to get bogus information they wanted to hear.
And every debate on what constitutes torture will hopefully besmirch everyone in congress who took part when history looks back. Torture is not based on a pain threshold. Torture is using physical force to coerce information from an individual in your power. Any other stance is a disgrace to anyone who claims to be an American or a civilized person.
And as far as that bizarre tortured justification of the 'ticking time bomb' to these people who are willing to compromise the ideals of being an American in order to stop a terrorist attack, I call them cowards and because of their cowardice the terrorists of 9/11 have won.