Daniel Levin, the Dept of Justice and waterboarding

[mburbank]

"If we can extract information that leads to catching more terrorists and furthering our goals in Iraq through torture, why shouldn't we use it with knowledgable targets who are not cooperative?"
-KKK

Lets see, now...

because it is illlegal and we are a country of laws

because we have condemend peopel to death in war crimes trials for the very same 'technique'

because it is immoral and our entire rational for our foreign policy is that we have moral superiority

because it is at very best a technique which yields more false tthan accurate information

because sooner or later it will end up being used on people we think are guilty who turn out

because if you allow your government to commit crimes in secret their will be an unavoidable temptation for those crimes to grow

because to date there is no historical evidence that a 'ticking time bomb' scenario has ever taken place

becaue the idea that such a technique might be useful is a complete hypothetical and torture is barbaric

becaue it puts us in the company of the Spanish Inquistion, the imperial Japanese army, the Khmer Rouge and the Nazis

because it increases the odds that US sooldiers will be similarly tortured
because we assumes we are always right nabout who is 'knowledgable'

because it is supported by people of serious moral confusion who actively enjoy the idea of inflciting pain

because it is supported by you and you are a very troubled young man