Reply #7: Woah hold on a minute guys. I guess my post was worded badly. I AM NOT saying that torture should...

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be accepted. My argument is the old war is hell argument that I don't think enough people have bought deeply enough. There is hardly a single war that I can think of in which horrible acts have not been committed by both sides. Gulf War (highway of death), Vietnam war (fagging of officers, killing of innocent villagers) etc etc... You simply won't find a war in which questionable acts were not committed. I'm not saying these acts should be in any way condoned but that they are part and parcel of the nightmare of war itself. War can't and should never be used as a political tool the way it has been too often in the past because it simply glosses over the true horrors of the act.