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To: Cogito who wrote (49575)	2/19/2008 4:17:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543215

I think the difference of opinion about waterboarding is just a matter of some people trying to rationalize and justify their own bad judgment. I don't. More importantly I think its best to be reluctant to assume bad faith in the other side. Even truly bad people often believe what they are doing is good. If it really is bad, than that fact might not count for a lot in the end, but it might usefully inform your response to them and those who think like them. If the US was prosecuting and convicting people as war criminals for waterboarding as early as WWII, how does it become legitimate to question whether or not it is torture now? If its legitimate now it didn't become so but was always so. Someone proposing it is legitimate would either have to point out some difference between than and now, or claim that the convictions, to the extent that they where specifically and only for waterboarding, where a mistake.