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"Someone should alert the numerous waterboarding Japanese leaders and soliders whom we convicted of torture in post-World War II war crimes trials -- among many others who were punished for similar offenses -- that what they did merely "bordered on torture."
Of course, we don't do it to torture; that's the big difference between us and our enemies. When we torture people, spie on them and bomb them to ha-jesus, we're doing it for humanitarian reasons with the utmost care to spare suffering and human life, no matter how much suffering is caused, or how many human lives taken. And, of course, freedom. And fries.
One note, however. It would be nice to see something post-election from Johnsen; people's beliefs, ethics and committments to the rule of law have an odd tendency to wither once they are in a position to do something about it.
