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If I was a terrorist and there was an attack I planned that was going to happen in say an hour - I could probably get through an hour of torture. Why would I give up the info if my plan was that close to fruition?
Just one of the many ways in which torture makes no sense - in addition to this:
[www.cbsnews.com]
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Basically you'd need a situation where you know, with 100% certainty, that an attack is about to happen (and when) and you also know, with 100% certainty, who knows the details of the attack. Oh, and that torturing them will get you the information (which is a ridiculous assumption in and of itself).
This doesn't happen in real life. And these people know it. But they also know the people they're addressing have watched too many movies and don't recognize the impossibility and stupidity of the hypothetical.
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I am so smart. S-M-R-T.
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The 9/11 operation took ten years or more to get off the ground, plus incredible piles of cash and the jettisoning of a lot of future possibilities. Anything but hijacking by a crew member is really impossible, at least in America. They're going to move onto different methods and they're going to want to up the body count. That's if we don't face attacks by our own home-grown terrorists, which frankly scares me more.
Not only does torture not work, it's inhumane as well. The common decency argument never works with people like the Cheneys, though, because they don't understand that concept. They don't even care about practicality: torture a terrorist and you've hardened his resolve. Torture an innocent person, and you might have created a terrorist---either him or his relatives.
It's absolutely horrifying how they use their ridiculous scenarios to justify these dishonorable practices.
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We should be asking Liz fucking Cheney over and over again why she supports torturing American troops, because this is exactly what she is doing by being a cheerleader for waterboarding.
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[news.bbc.co.uk]
And this was just a fun fact to throw in for laffs:
[www.cnn.com]
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Besides which? In the MIddle East, getting them to talk isn't the problem, I've found; it's getting them to shut up that's really the tough job. What are these other guys doing?
I thought originally that Iraqis were going to be sexist, and wouldn't talk to a woman. Boy, was I wrong. That worked in my favor. Let them think I'm stupid: let me play the daughter card. Whatever. Worked like a charm most of the time.
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At this point in DIck's tenure, we were down 3,000 Americans and 2 WTC buildings. You'll notice no such events have occurred during the Obama administration and there are even more people who hate us, thanks to Dick. So...shut the fuck up.
Signed,
ides
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:picks up eyeballs off floor after rolling too hard:
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