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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (375620)	3/31/2008 9:23:03 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575808

Interning thousands of Japanese-Americans during WWII might have been the "right thing to do" at the time, but in hindsight it was unnecessary and unjust. I agree 100%. Likewise, I don't approve of what happened at Abu Ghraib I don't, either -- but it was blown totally out of proportion, and to the detriment of our war effort. The character of what happened there was totally overstated -- while there may have been incidents that were appropriately classified as "torture", the incident, as a whole, was substantially less than "torture". I don't approve of waterboarding I don't approve of it as a matter of policy, but I do believe there are circumstances under which it is acceptable. I believe CIA Chief Hayden's remarks on Sunday put it in perspective -- it is a technique that has been used exceedingly rarely, and that is acceptable to me. I do respect the fact that McCain has a different view, and would not begin to argue with him over it. In short, it is an extremely unimportant discussion because it has so rarely been employed. and I don't agree with the legal limbo in which we stick POWs in the war on terrorism. I don't have any problem, at all, with this. Those people have no claim to due process, and shouldn't have. If mistakes are made, mistakes are made. We're engaged in a war and when we make a reasonable effort to determine that someone is an enemy, they must be treated that way. In cases where it turns out they weren't, I hate it, but getting terrorists off the street is the more important cause. IMO. But to claim that Gitmo is just as bad as a Nazi concentration camp or a Siberian gulag is crazy. We need a little perspective here. Agree here, too -- most of these people are being held in better conditions than they came from, and there is certainly no basis for comparison with the way OUR POWs have been treated by every enemy we've ever had. Tenchusatsu