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To: PLMerite
I'd rather see drugs used to extract information from prisoners, than this stuff. When the Islamofascists see humiliating photos, that only encourages them to intensify their already brutal treatment of Westerners.

Moral qualms about using drugs for debriefing prisoners are outdated in a war where the enemy are Islamofascist kamikazes.

I've read claims that information extracted under the influence is 'unreliable.' But that complaint could me made against other methods too.

If the purpose is to save lives and win the war, I can see no moral reason to object to the use of sodium pentothal (or whatever pharmaceutical is best for eliciting information).

17 posted on 05/03/2004 7:01:43 AM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: shhrubbery!
Drugs are unreliable except in the movies (although the scene in "True Lies" was funny).

Winning the guy over with warmth and friendship is one thing, if you have time. Otherwise it's best that the guy be fearful every time you unlock his cell door.

Remember, these Iraqis were the ones picked up in relation to insurgent activity, including placing roadside bombs.

Every day they don't talk is another day more soldiers will potentially die.
18 posted on 05/03/2004 1:06:54 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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