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To: sinkspur
"Fraternity pranks" like this get fraternities shut down, buster.

LOL So, interrogation tactics used on terrorists and baathists are so awful, that fraternities would be SHUT DOWN! Well that's certainly compelling.

People can debate the effectiveness of specific tactics all they want. But what's key is that interrogation inherently involves unpleasantness. And the irrational outrage over these tactics used, i.e. making the enemy wear underwear, parade around naked, simulate sex acts, etc, is out of proportion. We are at war.

We should use any means necessary to get information that would save the lives of our soldiers and innocent civilians. And the Al Qaida prisoners should get special treatment far worse than simply be made to wear women's underwear. They should be tortured and then shot. But no photo's please. Anyone have a problem with that?

292 posted on 05/10/2004 7:13:18 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk
Did we torture and then summarily shoot the Germans and Japanese in World War II, who in their own ways were equally as barbarous as al-Qaida? No. Then we shouldn't do it here.

FYI, Churchill wanted to do that to the German general staff after World War II, just take them out and shoot them without a trial. We told him no way. We did it the right way, we did it within the rules, the worst of the lot were still stone-cold dead at the end of the day and we didn't parade Hermann Goering and Hideki Tojo around naked for cameras.

296 posted on 05/10/2004 7:21:29 AM PDT by GB
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