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One look at the liberal responses will show you why the tender snowflakes should never be in charge of the CIA.
When dealing with enemy combatants you need more than milk and cookies.
You need someone smart enough not to waste their time on torture, which is non-productive and damages the people inflicting it as well as its victims. You need someone smart enough who doesn't think that the movies and real life are the same.
The Geneva Convention applies to prisoners of war. Terrorists are not prisoners of war.
Unfortunately for YOU, the reference to the Geneva Convention was regarding the definition of torture. It wasn't regarding the definition of prisoners of war. Maybe if you all could actually focus on the topic (TORTURE, the word is right there in the thread title), instead of, and I use this word deliberately, dancing around the issue.
So what? She did her job and followed the orders of the president at the time. The guy that we Americans collectively reelected. Every time you start to feel sorry for the terrorists, google a few pictures of the men and women jumping to their deaths from the Twin Towers. Or google some pics of the people being tortured and murdered by ISIS or Al Qaeda. I don't judge the men and women trying to keep us safe from terrorists who are the worst of humankind. The people being waterboarded would happily kill all of us if they had the chance. I don't feel the least bit sorry for them.
Unfortunately for YOU, the reference to the Geneva Convention was regarding the definition of torture. It wasn't regarding the definition of prisoners of war. Maybe if you all could actually focus on the topic (TORTURE, the word is right there in the thread title), instead of, and I use this word deliberately, dancing around the issue.
It's an ongoing challenge trying to keep these threads focused on the topic at hand.
So what? She did her job and followed the orders of the president at the time. The guy that we Americans collectively reelected. Every time you start to feel sorry for the terrorists, google a few pictures of the men and women jumping to their deaths from the Twin Towers. Or google some pics of the people being tortured and murdered by ISIS or Al Qaeda. I don't judge the men and women trying to keep us safe from terrorists who are the worst of humankind. The people being waterboarded would happily kill all of us if they had the chance. I don't feel the least bit sorry for them.
Your reference to reminding us of the people jumping to their deaths or to people murdered by ISIS suggests that the torture is justified as revenge. And no, that's just wrong. If you feel sorry for the people being tortured by ISIS, then you have to acknowledge that torture is bad and wrong. And if torture is bad and wrong, then it isn't something we (the good guys) should be doing.
But we don't follow lilyflower's rules on the matter...the Geneva convention takes precedence.
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