“This lawsuit poses the question addressed by our founding fathers about how to strike the proper balance of fighting a war against terror, at home and abroad, and fighting a war using tactics of terror.”
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Wake up, judge, and smell the green tea.
The Founding Fathers had no clue about
this war on terror conducted by savage
animals bent on destroying our whole
country.
They had Indian raids did they not? And the Indians often used terrorism: surprise attacks (when the colonists thought they had a peaceful arrangement,) targeting civilians, and atrocities as psychological warfare.
The current war, no.
They were however very familiar with the butchery, torture and brutality visited upon colonials during the French and Indian War. Waterboarding ain't torture, nor cruel or unusual.