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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 10:23 AM
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The 'ticking time bomb scenario' as justification for waterboarding is disingenuous...
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There is no reason to believe that use of 'torture' will yield the information you seek in such a scenario.

Brownback just said 'you go just as far as you can to save AMerican lives.' Ridiculous. How is torture a reliable method of acquiring accurate information --and if it does not, how is that going to save American lives.

The entire premise if wrong.
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  -The 'ticking time bomb scenario' as justification for waterboarding is disingenuous... Blackhatjack  Nov-06-07 10:23 AM   #0 
  - ANY scenario for waterboarding is criminal  spanone   Nov-06-07 10:24 AM   #1 
  - The fascists whose footsteps we follow  mmonk   Nov-06-07 10:26 AM   #2 
  - So Brownback supports universal healthcare then, right?  Beelzebud   Nov-06-07 10:27 AM   #3 
  - Exactly - so why has US been using outsourced torture all this time, anyway?  blm   Nov-06-07 10:28 AM   #4 
  - Just from a logic stand point.  maine_raptor   Nov-06-07 10:35 AM   #5 
  - Exactly. It is one of the dumbest "logic" puzzles out there:  mikeytherat   Nov-06-07 10:49 AM   #10 
  - But 24 and cop shows use it all the time and it works?  fasttense   Nov-06-07 10:37 AM   #6 
  - K/R  Solly Mack   Nov-06-07 10:37 AM   #7 
  - Brownback used "save American lives" ad nauseum. This is uncivilized because  L. Coyote   Nov-06-07 10:39 AM   #8 
  - Right, the guy has already decided to die in the blast  Warpy   Nov-06-07 10:44 AM   #9 
  - Has There Ever Been a Ticking Time Bomb  ribofunk   Nov-06-07 12:00 PM   #11 
 

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