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Old 04-30-2009, 04:33 PM
 
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Sixty-one anti-torture protesters were arrested outside the White House on Thursday in a planned act of mass civil disobedience at the end of an event organized by Witness Against Torture and Amnesty International.
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Old 04-30-2009, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Texas...and proud of it.
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WHat the f... is wrong with torture? It seems to me that the guy is still alive. That can not be said of the ones we killed.
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Old 04-30-2009, 05:01 PM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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WHat the f... is wrong with torture? It seems to me that the guy is still alive. That can not be said of the ones we killed.
Torture is OK just as long as you don't kill em? Are you typing this from a county jail somewhere?
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:32 PM
 
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WHat the f... is wrong with torture? It seems to me that the guy is still alive. That can not be said of the ones we killed.
Becauuuuuuuuuuuuse it's illegal and we are a nation of laws.
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:35 PM
 
Location: Houston Texas
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Becauuuuuuuuuuuuse it's illegal and we are a nation of laws.
Unfortunately, we are at war though and sometimes crazy things happen in order to protect our Americans
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:40 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Unfortunately, we are at war though and sometimes crazy things happen in order to protect our Americans


Wasn't a similar line of defense a big flop in Nuremberg?
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:41 PM
 
Location: Chicago Suburbs
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Is Obama gonna mock them too?
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:44 PM
 
Location: Houston Texas
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Wasn't a similar line of defense a big flop in Nuremberg?
We did the same in WW2 and things worked out pretty well
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:46 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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We did the same in WW2 and things worked out pretty well
Not so well for the Japanese convicted of waterboarding, sad to see how many are willing to see the US lower its standards.
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Old 04-30-2009, 07:47 PM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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We did the same in WW2 and things worked out pretty well
Not true. Actually, we executed a few Japanese soldiers for waterboarding some of our troops.
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