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Conan O'Brien	Jan 24 2009, 12:53 PM
SKILLNADEN ÄR DRINKABILITY Posts: 2,781 Group: Veteran Member #16 Joined: June 8, 2005	The entire election cycle, Obama said one thing I agreed with, and that was that America doesn't torture. And now HE'S going back on that. I am 99% against torture. Deliberately causing someone pain? Yeah, unethical in my book. Screw the Constitution and Geneva Accords. We could argue the legal ramifications of torture all day. But that doesn't change the moral ramifications. We always imagine these doomsday situations where this terrorist knows the location of some atom bomb, and should we torture to find out where it is. In that situation, I'd probably torture the guy, but at the same time knowing what I was doing was wrong. When you start justifying torture of a thinking human being for God's sake, then you've got a problem. At the same time, given my stance on torture, closing Gitmo is stupid. Not kinda stupid, very stupid. Either a) it's just an empty gesture and everything will keep going on behind the scenes, and moving all the prisoners is a colossal waste of money and military resources, or b) We'll start trying them in military of civilian courts, most of them will get acquitted because soldiers don't collect evidence and the CIA will be unwilling the reveal their (potentially illegal) information collecting techniques. Or c) A lot of prisoners will be released, some of which will return to kill, and then Obama gets bloody egg in the face.
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