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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (190420)	6/29/2006 12:03:27 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"But there are times, and circumstances, when you "gotta do what you gotta do" and then try and retrieve your humanity later on ... If we are talking about a person who is surrendering unto you as a captive, there should be no need for anything other than interrogation to extract information. In the case of the kidnapper, I would consider them a violent combatant until they agreed to surrender unto me all that they are withholding. Detainees are different. We are holding them for a variety of reasons and we don't know what might come of torture. Maybe they will tell me where OBL is and I will become famous, maybe they know nothing. Am I willing to take the risk of gaining the whole world while losing my soul? If I have tortured someone who knows nothing I have become what I am sworn to oppose. If I enter the torture chamber not knowing which is true (knowledge of OBL or know nothing), I have agreed to take that risk, no different than a drunk driver who takes the risk of getting away with it or killing an innocent. If I torture someone on a fishing expedition it is the same thing. No torture, the risks far outweigh the benefits. Best regards, Gem