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Picture a person. A hostage. For no reason other than he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Snatched off the street.

He's kneeling; his hands are cuffed or zip-tied behind him.

There's a masked guy, in black, standing next to and slightly behind him. He's got a large knife. He's ranting in Arabic, pissed off because the world believes he's nothing more than a savage - after ACTING like a savage - and his book tells him to kill all who don't believe what he believes.

There's a cameraman in front of the kneeling guy. He believes the same thing as Knife Boy.

They've been filming the hostage over and over; for days maybe. The kneeling man KNOWS that he's going to die, horribly, just not when. Every time they do this, he thinks today is the day. When it doesn't happen, he begins to think - because it's HUMAN nature for him to believe - that MAYBE, they'll let him go - despite all past stories to the contrary.

Then, one day, Knife Boy in black carries out his threats and saws the man's head off, for his family and the world to see. The hostage screams, gurgles through his torn throat, and is dead.

Now it's on YouTube. His family can see his horrific death, iover and over. Idiots with no sense of decency will post and re-post it hundreds of times out of morbidity, making the loved ones of this poor man relive it over and over.

That's terror.

That's horror.

And THAT is torture.

Waterboarding does not equate to this in ANY way.

I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for these people. If we catch them, do whatever needs to be done to prevent an American from being murdered.

If these animals want Geneva Convention protection, then they should stop acting like animals.

Which isn't likely to happen.