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If the President has to crush the testicles of the person’s child to save the lives of 300,000,000 Americans, then torture away.
I don't need to read the Authoritarians to see the basic ugly thought processes on display.
Notice how it insinuates that our fearless leader would be in a position to wield the ball-peen hammer of said testicle crushing. And, that this duty, performed competently is presumed.
Nowhere is the rational realization that the ticking time bomb of doom is the result of movie fiction and not reality.
One particular item of note in this sentence is that it will not accept the responsibility of actually inflicting aforementioned crush of the sac. No, that's for our extremely competent leaders to do without informing the citizenry what is being done in their name.
19 guys with box cutters...
Bin Laden could not have known we'd destroy our constitution, our values, our military, our future prosperity, our relations with the world so easily could he?
