I never agreed to the 'punishable by death' part ;) On Saturday, April 25, 2009, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bruce wrote: >> >> Mildly entertaining at best. But I am a big fan of water boarding, or >> any technique to get the enemy to talk. > > Well my new position, which Scott helped me form yesterday, is you > should feel free to do what you think is necessary to protect the > country. > > Personally I side with the founders who found torture so abhorrent > they were willing to lose wars rather than justify it with law. > > Thus what feel is necessary to protect the country is first a set of > moral principles that we shall defend and shall not cross except under > penalty of prosecution. > > Thus torture shall be considered illegal and punishable by death. > > If a soldier feels that torture is the only way to protect his > country, then he should partake in it knowing it will mean his public > prosecution and execution. > > And there should be no shame in that if he feels his actions protected > his country. > >
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