Thread: Waterboarding: The great liberal non-story of the decade
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Old 02-06-2008, 11:21 AM
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Default Waterboarding: The great liberal non-story of the decade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7229169.stm

All of the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth by the left seems to be much ado about nothing. We did it to a grand total of three people, all of which were high ranking members of Al Qaeda. And in terms of the hypothetical "24 scenario" and torturing to prevent a catastrophe...


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He told Congress: "We used it against these three detainees because of the circumstances at the time. "There was the belief that additional catastrophic attacks against the homeland were inevitable. And we had limited knowledge about al-Qaeda and its workings.
That was the reasoning at the time for doing it. What a major non-issue this ended up being.
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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.


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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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