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Ask the family of the 3K+ at the World Trade Center; ask those families who lost somebody at the Pentagon (I was stationed with one of them);




What do techniques for conducting interrogating on prisoners have to do with a past tactical assault on a target? By your logic, why is the USA 'just' waterboarding prisoners, rather than executing them on pay per view, raping them with a broomhandle, or some other tit-for-tat method to get back at them personally for perceived transgressions?

Waterboarding wasn't selected to give the baddies a good shot back, it was selected because (valid or not), someone thought it was more effective than plain old guilt at extracting information during interrogations.

And if you're questioning why they value American lives so little as to kill several thousand of them in one swoop on 9-11, how would the correct response be inflicting permanent brain damage (through oxygen deprivation) on one of their combatants? There is a gap in your logic there. Surely you don't mean to imply reinforcing and perpetuating the enemy's lack of respect for human life is respectable or worthy?

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ask the reporter who had his head chopped off by these fucking rag heads; ask the families of the 3 Blackwater contractors who were killed, burnt and hung on the bridge in Bagdad.




Americans get killed while in other countries. This has been happening for a long time, and will continue into the future. Even looking American or European (in ethnicity, or dress, or mannerisms) is enough to make you stand out on other parts of the globe.

Blackwater operators are mercenaries -- paid soldiers. Their jobs include risk of death, and they are paid at a rate with this in mind. With great respect to any person serving his or her country, soldiers die -- that's what they're there for (and they know this themselves). You must be joking me if you think soldiers being killed in a hostile guerilla war zone would be unusual. Desecrating the bodies was a different story.

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They want us all dead, buried, in the ground. I think we need to do whatever it takes, to keep them from doing it to us.




How does that relate to interrogation techniques used on someone we already have in captivity in a jail? That's what is being discussed here.

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Where the fuck are you from? Canada? France?



Nice try, but you need to attack the substance of your opponent's arguments, not your opponent's (perceived or otherwise) personal attributes. Classic fail, also known as an ad hominem attack.