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edhopper

(33,587 posts)
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 01:53 PM Dec 2014

A question not asked the torture apologists

They seem to bring up a couple of very high profile prisoners who they say gave information under torture (though this is disputed by the report)
Even given this, how does it justify the torture of hundreds of prisoners taken for all sorts of reasons, including dozens of innocent people?

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malokvale77

(4,879 posts)
2. There is no justification...
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 03:47 PM
Dec 2014

including the hypothetical, "What if your ---insert loved one here--- was about to be ---insert bad thing here--- ?"

No response given under torture will ever save your loved one.

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
3. The question I keep waiting for is:
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 03:50 PM
Dec 2014

"If what we did was legal, and it worked, and it was moral, then why did we need to send prisoners out for "Rendition"?"

Is there a line we won't cross? Oh sure we'll water board someone, we'll deprive them of sleep for a week, we'll beat them, chain them to the floor and "rectally hydrate them&quot seriously?) but we draw the line at raping a member of their family right in front of them. For that we send them somewhere else.

Remember, the report was only on what we did here, nothing about the hundreds of people we sent out for "Rendition"..

malaise

(269,054 posts)
4. Using his tortured logic, the war criminal of a Dick said he didn't care that
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 03:50 PM
Dec 2014

25% of the detainees were innocent because 3,000 Americans were killed on 9/11 and the killers were the torturers.

That man is one sick fugg.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
7. Per classmates and family on Facebook, every torture victim was guilty of terrorism
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 04:41 PM
Dec 2014

And of course, they'll post a picture of someone from ISIS beheading someone, and say "THIS is why we torture"

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