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Absolutely right, the huge amount of press that it is getting will be a gold mine to ISIS as a recruiting tool. If the momentum keeps up we will have Al Queda, ISIS and all the others foaming at the mouth and attacking us on all fronts. As usual, Innocents will be killed. Get ready for the ride, It's war time!
1. Reading foreign papers, it's not getting much action.
2. How do you conclude repeating old news is the biggest recruitment tool ever?
It's like saying that if someone went on front of TV cameras today and said we nuked Japan, that it should somehow outrage the rest of the world.
I just want any crocodile tears lefty to answer why they assert that torture is wrong but killing others is A-OK, especially when it's done under Obama's direction.
Some of those tortured survive; none of those killed survive. Why don't they consider Obama's killings worse than the CIA's supposed torture?
Easy answer. Killing enemy combatants in a defensive war is legal and moral.
Torture, killing noncombatants and engaging in aggressive war are illegal and immoral.
The difference between the Bush and Obama administrations is their propensity to engage in illegal and immoral behavior. Obama does not have a perfect record; but the difference is roughly the same as the difference between drinking slightly polluted tap water and drinking brine.
And Democrats, including Obama himself, order the killing of people. How is that not worse?
One reason is the lower body count. Killing fewer people and not torturing others is better than destroying nations and kidnaping people then having them tortured. Obama's policy just returns the US to the usual dull roar; you're always killing someone somewhere.
Killing others is wrong, too. Has the U.S. stopped killing others under Obama's presidency? No? Hmmmm... Why not?
They conveniently ignore that, and his indiscriminate use of drones and Cruise missiles that have in fact killed children and Innocents alike. As long as it was 'O' they don't care. They justify it because it wasn't Bush. Unlike them I don't like either one of those Bastards.
Torture is waking up every morning thinking about what was going on in you son's, daughter's, father's, or mother's mind when they made the decision to leap to their death on 9-11 rather than being burned alive.
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Torture is thinking daily about your son or daughter having their head sawed off with a dull knife while alive and wide awake by barbarians who have no compassion or mercy for another human being.
Boo hoo. We understand you're scared and that torture makes you feel better. That doesn't actually justify it though.
"Afghanistan’s new President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday condemned the CIA torture program Wednesday, saying the United States’ actions violated “all accepted principles of human rights”.
"US officials and other American citizens implicated by the Senate report on torture could face arrest in other countries as a result of investigations by foreign courts"
A British man who was allegedly tortured after being detained in Pakistanat the request of the CIA and MI5 has embarked upon the latest round of his damages claim against the UK government, the Guardian’s Ian Cobain
The Guardian’s Carmen Fishwick and James Walsh have rounded up of how newspapers worldwide covered the release of the Senate report on CIA torture.
One reason is the lower body count. Killing fewer people and not torturing others is better than destroying nations and kidnaping people then having them tortured.
Killing others kills more people than does torture.
Someone must've thought it was worse, or we would not have signed various international treaties, and passed domestic laws against it.
And BTW killing unarmed prisoners is usually illegal too.
To outlaw killing armed combatants would be the same as to outlaw war; I would be all in favor of that, if it were possible. It didn't work for Kellogg and Briand.
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