Wojtek said "always," that is, an absolutist "in every case, everywhere, in all conceivable circumstances." not "in the current situation in the US."
It's the philosopher in me.
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Of course, that example is completely irrelevant to the
> cases at hand. It's now come out that the reason that those
> guys were waterboarded so intensely was to get them to
> confess to the nonexistent link between Al Qaeda and Saddam
> Hussein. It had nothing to with "preventing another 9/11."
>
> Doug
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