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• Monday, January 19, 2009 12:35 PM

  It IS Cheney!

  It's either Deadeye Dick or one of his fanboys.

  Assuming I agree with Greenwald's entire article, which I don't entirely, I think there is a position that should be considered. The word "torture" for most brings scenes of the Inqusition, and there is evidence that information gained is not always accurate.

  And thus, the bullshit begins. One, the Inquisition (as well as the witch hunts) used water torture to get people to "confess" to things that not only weren't true, not only things that did not happen, but to things that were physically impossible, like flying on broomsticks and turning people into toads.

  One of the people Bush had tortured "confessed" that Iraq and Al-Qaeda were allied against the US and that Iraq was involved in the 9-11 attacks. That "confession" is in part responsible for the deaths of over 4000 Americans and a million Iraqis.

  Assume that 100 terrorists were subjected to waterboarding and one out of the hundred made possible an intervention that caught an otherwise viable plan to nuke New York City, thus preventing the deaths of several million people. Would you still want to prosecute the one who waterboarded that terrorist?

  I don't assume anything is possible when it only happens on moronic TV shows. Why not base government policy on I Dream of Jeannie while you're at it? [click my name below]

  http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=102

  Besides Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay has more basis in reality and is more entertaining.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONMoVMMnR_U

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9ta7AHsIU

  We are in a new world of possibilities and need new world solutions, as well as new thinking about permissible interrogation procedures. It is a slippery slope, but many lives may well depend on our solution.

  There's nothing new about torture. It was stupid, perverted and evil thousands of years ago and still is today -just like those who condone it. You know, YOU!

  They might as well bring back animal and human sacrifice, too.

  The niceties of civiliazed behavior are sorely tested in any war. We must balance the true possibilities against our moral conscience.

  Hitler couldn't have said it any better:

  Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

  --Adolf Hitler

  Looks like you're not the only one who thinks morality can be ignored during a struggle.

  —Jelperman Read Jelperman's other letters
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