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To: Cogito who wrote (49371)	2/17/2008 1:35:29 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543192

That's kind of like saying it's OK for him to use certain words but to mean whatever he wants by them. Not it isn't very much like that. There is genuine difference of opinion and genuine ambiguities about the proper precise meaning for the term. Which doesn't mean there isn't reason to be uncomfortable about activity which possibly might not qualify as full blown torture. Or that there isn't reason to be concerned about stretching the boundaries. It not like anything that isn't, or doesn't get classified as, torture is necessarily moral or proper. I personally think that the whole issue of waterboarding masks the probability that we have used many other interrogation techniques that would also be classified as torture If so than those methods can also be talked about. As long as we can stick to a ridiculous question like whether or not one specific method of torture actually is torture Your begging the question.