Thread: Waterboarding: The great liberal non-story of the decade
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Old 02-06-2008, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by raytri View Post
It's not a "liberal lie" that we should have been concerned about this -- about what acts are being perpetrated in our name.

Arguably, the only reason its use has been limited to three high-profile targets is because of the public outcry.

I have no problem with its use in extreme circumstances -- as in, to stop imminent attacks. But it is torture, and its use should be heavily restricted.

And the administration could have defused the whole issue years ago by simply spelling out the policy: we'll use it, but only in emergencies. That wouldn't have helped terrorists.
I didn't say it was a lie, but that it ended up a non-story. But how do you know the outcry had anything to do with it? When did waterboarding enter the press? I don't think the administration is great at communicating, but that said, do you really think it would have ended the controversy?
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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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