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Cheney condones waterboarding torture
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31/10/2006 13:20:05
 
 
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31/10/2006 12:59:21
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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You're reading WAY too much into what I said.


>>Ah.
>>Perhaps you have a point.
>>
>>But I think US has long way to go before they master the fine art of drilling holes into a live knee caps and cutting off various body parts of an enemy. So, it's hard for me to have any sympathy.
>
>I see several problems with this argument, in fact, far too many to list here, but I will mention a few of the main points.
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>1. If you hit my children, am I then entitled to hit your children? - The people tortured by the United States are not necessarily the same as the ones that tortured U.S. citizens. You can't equate the people of an entire country with their government, or with an extremist group in that country.
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>2. The U.S. government has, indeed, participated in more severe cases of torture. The fact that they delegated this to other countries doesn't make them any less guilty - I wonder whey they even bothered to outsource the torturing.
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>3. The U.S. president has repeatedly stated that the U.S. government doesn't condone torture. This is now clearly exposed as a lie.
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain (1866)
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