Water boarding vs.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Do you support the use of such techniques if there is a ticking bomb?

Ticking time bomb is a contrived scenario. While it's fun to philosophically debate the hypotheticals, practically speaking it's a rare circumstance, probably on the order of how rare waterboarding is.

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Narrow and controlled? How do you know? Because John Ashcroft said so?

Do we have another way to know?

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Which must explain our use of extraordinary rendition. If waterboarding was 100% effective, why would any other method ever be used?

What other method is the US using?

As for Al-Qaeda gouging eyes out, that isn't a function of trying to extract information from their captives, it's to punish their enemies and scare the shit out of anything that would otherwise stand in their way.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

You are just asking me the same question I asked you. What if raping and killing a child could save lives? Would you do it? I submit every person alive has a limit at which point they say "no." And they should say no.

And my answer was given so easily in part because I know the question you phrased isn't ever going to happen.

Fair enough about a limit point. Mine is different than yours. I would cause an evil terrorist to suffer in order to save lives.