On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > Torture is not justifiable. Now let's wait for Congress to specifically > > define whether waterboarding is torture, because today it is not > > specifically defined in the law as torture. > > DOH! And here we executed that Japanese guy in WWII for waterboarding > POWs. >
I think there might have been one or two other factors in that decision. Like the US public being ultra-pissed about losing tens of thousands of soldiers in a war with an imperial Japan. Now go back and look at the punishments meted out to US personnel for waterboarding the enemy during wartime: - 1898 - $50 fine, one month suspension - Vietnam - court-martial and discharge from the military Not exactly the same as execution, is it? LOL. All of this is beside the point, though. Obama has already said he is not going to allow prosecutions of the agents who carried out the actual interrogations. So where does that leave us? Precisely nowhere. You can't prosecute the lawyers for writing an opinion unless you can prove some sort of fraudulent intent. Good luck with that. That leaves the politicians, but remember that includes Nancy Pelosi and several other members of Congress who could be construed to be complicit by their lack of objection to the techniques that they were briefed on. That's a no-go. So the whole thing will be nothing but a political spectacle. > > You really think you're going to win a pro-torture argument don't you? > You really think we're debating pro and con on torture, don't you? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296031 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
