Torture memos

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Originally Posted by classicman

Thanks for not helping. Please feel free to not reply to my posts, especially any not directed specifically at you, in the future.

Your post applies to every decent person in the world. Which do you want advocate? Inflict pain or interrogate them? These are mutually exclusive options - except when Cheney and others promoted hate, fear and lies. Which one do you advocate? Do we punish them with pain. Or do we extract useful information - as Indonesia did to completely subvert Jemaah Islamiya? The Bali bombings that killed hundreds of Australians? Solved by not using torture and by overtly denying Cheney's people access.

What part do you not understand? Do we inflict pain as Americans did in Guantanamo, Abu Ghriad and secret prisons elsewhere in the world? Or do we do what decent people - ie Indonesians - throughout the world did to stop terrorism? Decent people even talk to our enemies. Which do you advocate? It’s a simple and logical question. Torture or interrogation? Mutually exclusive concepts. Political spin does not negate the question. Which one do you advocate?