HBO's "Dirty War" uses torture on a Muslim man. Anyone see it?

MikeG

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Sat Jan-29-05 12:33 PM
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HBO's "Dirty War" uses torture on a Muslim man. Anyone see it?

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LibInternationalist

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Sat Jan-29-05 12:35 PM
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1. have it Tivoed, look forward to watching

(not for the torture, clearly)

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LibInternationalist

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Sat Jan-29-05 04:28 PM
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2. I've seen it now

Edited on Sat Jan-29-05 04:31 PM by LibInternationalist

I'm surprised that was what you took from it, I thought the torture was (a) not that severe and (b) justified, given that they found the suspect at the address where other people known to be involved had been (unless I jumped to that conclusion, plz forgive me if I did)

I thought it was a pretty interesting movie -- it's really frightening to think about the long-term effects of radiation, although I don't entirely think that it would have the tremendous impact depicted at the end of the film

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sugargoose

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Sat Jan-29-05 05:01 PM
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3. JUSTIFIED??

Confession: Didn't see the show. Just shocked that a contributor to this board would call any torture justified.
I'm guessing the severity would be relative to the individual's perception.

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LibInternationalist

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Sun Jan-30-05 10:08 AM
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4. well, it was basically a scotland yard agent

dunking a guy's head into water a couple of times -- and while I guess one might conclude that it escalated off screen, I didn't really get that

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