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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (12021)	4/30/2009 2:13:43 PM
From: pompsander	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

here is bottom line...give an answer to the following question, YES OR NO... or go back to MORONSDOTORG. Would you waterboard a terrorist to save your son or daughter? YES______________ NO_______________ ______________________ See, there is the simplistic approach you take to complex questions. Yes, if a terrorist was holding a gun to my son's head, I would tell him to get on that waterboard right now! Satisfied. But real life does not work in your simple black and white world. You need to be sure the guy you have absolute physical and emotional control over is ACTUALLY the guy who can deliver the true information you need to stop that killing. Your simplistic example isn't how it worked with the vast majority of people involved. Many were waterboarded who knew nothing, or would have admitted to anything their interrogators wanted them to say after the "treatment". That is why our military leaders, most of the rest of the world and a majority of American experts think the process is not worth it. So, let's play with your logic...you love black and white questions. Say I have solid intelligence that a serial killer lives in your neighborhood but I don't know who it is. I know from this guy's profile that he will kill again if not stopped. I have to find him! I ask you and your neighbors to give me all the info I want, but you refuse. So, should I take you and all your neighbors, your kids....and waterboard them until they tell me everything I want to know about all the neighbors? Doesn't matter if you think it is relevant...I am in charge. If I don't stop this guy, he kills.....so any means is justified to give me what I want, right? Get your family ready, Pro...maybe it doesn't need to be a killer. Maybe a threat of a killer.....the ends justify the means, right? I am sure you agree.