Thread: Torture memos
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Old 05-02-2009, 01:01 AM   #274
Urbane Guerrilla
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Originally Posted by Redux View Post
UT...IMO, it is dishonest and disingenuous to even raise the comparison of a battlefield tactic to prevent an armed enemy from striking US forces (or US civilians) to the treatment of an enemy captive in your total control.
It's all the same battlefield, Redux. Can't really part 'em. Haven't since WWI. We shall stand or fall on our HUMINT in this fight. If there is failure to gather information through HUMINT, how is your life improved should the enemy thereby manage to kill you off?

It sure wouldn't improve mine.
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