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To: RetiredNow who wrote (542457)	1/9/2010 4:39:39 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1576862

Waterboarding is not torture by any reasonable measure, but this has been argued incessantly with no consensus in the end. So, I'll just say it. I don't have a problem with torture when it is necessary to save American lives. I would have no hesitation about torturing someone to prevent an injury to my family, or to my country. The people doing the interrogations were experts at enhanced interrogation. They're not going to kill the guy. Or, even if they need to to insure American lives are saved, I just don't care. Obviously, you don't apply enhanced techniques to every person, and with waterboarding applied only three people, you'd have to say it was used sparingly and only in those circumstances where it might yield important results. I just don't have a problem with it; it is mild by historical standards, and if you have to make some of these guys uncomfortable to insure the safety of Americans you ought to do it. Even if you don't approve of waterboarding, there are TONS of traditional techniques which SHOULD be applied to people like the pantybomber and it is gross incompetence to have not done so.

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