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To: GST who wrote (190147)	6/26/2006 1:27:12 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If we embrace dictatorship in the US we do not promote freedom. Who's embracing "dictatorship" in the US?? Maybe you should read a bit of history (instead of trying to make it up on the fly) and review the kinds of governmental actions that were implemented during WWII... None of which resulted in "dictatorship", nor any permanent retardation of civil liberties. If we resort to torture we do not promote human rights. You never answered whether corporal punishment against juveniles constitutes torture. The fact that spanking would constitute torture with regard to these illegal combatants and terrorist leadership should put a bit of perspective on the matter. Because by these military standards of interrogation, American parents "torture" their children on a REGULAR basis. And should parents be permitted to segregate their children from the rest of the family by sending to their rooms (and especially without their supper)?? But oh no... doing this to an illegal combatant who has refused to cooperate is controversial, if not downright abusive... Me.. personally I think there's still a place for Sodium Amitol when required to obtain vital information that might save American lives. And even though I'm not in favor of extreme physical violence against prisoners (if you leave a bruise or a cut, you're stretching the limits of what I considered acceptable), I can tell you that many prisoners have RIDICULED our interrogation styles. They are not afraid and most are pretty tough cookies who would not respond to anything other than a "fear up" approach. If we invade countries that pose no threat and who have not attacked us we do not advance the cause of world peace. If you're stupidly trying to claim that Saddam posed no threat, then please answer to me why we sent 500,000 US soldiers to kick his @ss out of Kuwait? And why did we have to spend over 10 years over-flying Iraq and preventing them from committing genocide against the Kurds and Shi'a?? Why were there over a dozen UNSC BINDING resolutions implemented against Iraq DEMANDING that Saddam comply with the cease fire requirements? Is world peace advanced if we permit such nations to attack other nations with impunity? Will world peace be served if we flee Iraq and leave them to collapse into all-out civil war? Hawk