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281275Unclewest, You still don't get it. Waterboarding is not torture.WaterboardinTenchusatsu112/19/2014
281274As a matter of principle, I believe we shouldn't resort to torture if we canunclewest-12/19/2014
281273The book's very first passage is to impound upon the reader not to take on wunclewest-12/19/2014
281272You keep building a strawman and knocking it down. I never said that tough situSun Tzu-12/19/2014
281271You're not willing to address the issues involved. There is no honor in preBrumar89112/19/2014
281270Saving Comrade Castro [ Russia and Venezuela can't afford to prop up CastrBrumar89-12/19/2014
281269You were presented with real world events as examples. Clearly you live in the hSdgla-12/19/2014
281268If my auntie had balls, she'd have been my uncle! I am not going to engage Sun Tzu-12/19/2014
281267More comments about torture: The waterboarders the left wants pilloried as inteBrumar89-12/19/2014
281266I believe we only used waterboarding (the only part of enhanced interrogation peBrumar89-12/19/2014
281265New Elf on Shelf idea: GI Joe waterboards Elf on Shelf [graphic]Brumar89-12/19/2014
281264You didn't address this part of my post: How about a captured member of a tBrumar89-12/19/2014
281263Unclewest, Granted, in exceptionally selective interviews, it did get us a tiny Tenchusatsu-12/19/2014
281262>> I assume you'd be morally comfortable in not doing anything untowarSun Tzu-12/19/2014
281261The book's very first passage is to impound upon the reader not to take on wSun Tzu-12/19/2014
281260The following is a short biography of Sun Tzu written by Sima Qian, one of the fBrumar89-12/19/2014
281259Who would they torture in those examples? A better example would be a captureBrumar89-12/19/2014
281258If you have a point to make, post your own data.unclewest-12/19/2014
281257They do that to themselves and we do it to them. That makes all the difference.Sun Tzu-12/19/2014
281256I know The Art of War by heart. Since you have a copy, please recite the first Sun Tzu-12/19/2014
281255The operative words were "you feel you are defending yourself ", not tSun Tzu-12/19/2014
281254Message 29858314unclewest-12/19/2014
281253Sun Tzu, Have you ever read the real Sun Tzu's book, The Art Of War? Be plunclewest212/18/2014
281252So your position is that you can do no wrong so long as you feel you are defendiunclewest112/18/2014
281251 But that still doesn't change my stance on whether we should have done it. unclewest212/18/2014
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