The question is: what if "enhanced interrogation techniques" helped give tips that led to the capture of Bin Laden?? If so, is "water-boarding" justified in certain rare situations authorized on an individual basis by the President of the United States?

Tags: BIN, ISLAM, LADEN, OSAMA, TERRORISM, TORTURE

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I *know*. How could I ever have managed to get my extensive knowledge between these two time consuming activitites? Good thing I had some midnight suns to read by. :)

 

 

Reading Brady Games doesn't count! ;)
Maybe a ticking time-bomb situation would allow for some passion, anger, and maybe violence against the perpetrator. Bin Laden though? He was sitting comfy in Pakistan for 6 years. Waterboarding didn't "get us" bin Laden, and even if it contributed to our intelligence, so what? Torturing one man allowed us to assassinate another? That's not justice. I'm tired of hearing people say bin Laden was "brought to justice" or "captured and killed." No, he was assassinated by a covert team who will remain anonymous. It may be war, but this was a revenge/assassination, it was not justice under any kind of modern justice system. No wrongs were righted, no penance or restitution was made. A man was killed 10 years after he convinced a bunch of other guys to be mass-murdering suicidal sociopaths. He led a decent-sized group whose tactics we cannot stand. And yet, here we are bombing Libya, still in Iraq and Afghanistan, a decade and thousands of civilian casualties later. I can't stand anyone's violent tactics; they have failed to make the world a safer place, they have failed at any national security goals, hurt our economy, and have weakened our bonds with our allies.
Very soundly stated - now prepare for the proponents of water-boarding, driven by their blood lust, to swoop in and call you a liberal, or something even 'worse'.
blood lust? I would think in contrast favoring the preference of the murders of thousands of people or a terrorist such as Bin Laden to be free instead of torturing an Al Qaeda terrorist is itself clearly "blood-lust".
Prove to me that torture saved thousands of lives - you have no evidence, only and unfounded opinion, which is wrong.
He won't because he can't.  He would make a good pundit, though.

Thank GOD noone have to rationally concider any torture arguments anymore, they are aaaaaaaaallll solved by some random person on the intertubez who spotted a brand new fallacy that was lost for millenia despite intensive search by legal scholars and philosophers! :)

Btw, is that a peace or literature Nobel prize?

OMG! Sarcasm SOOOOO wins any argument online! Screeeeeeeech! Do you want the Emmy or an OSCARRRRRR!

I want EGOT!

But I thought self-aggrandizing was the debate winner..?

I'M OMNIPOTENT!  #WINNING!

Omnipotence>Impotence

A well deserved, though dry, victory for you, Sir :)

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