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See, now you're not thinking about this logically, that's your problem.
A lecture about "thinking" from a tool like you who is incapable of coherent thinking is too funny. The next time you think will be the first time you think.
Personally, I don't really give two shits about terrorists.
But they care about you.
What I DO care about is getting information from them.
No you don't. You care about giving them "rights" to which they aren't even entitled in a context to which it does not pertain.
We have 2 ways of going about that. The "carrot" and the "stick".
Wrong again, although those are two OF the numerous ways to extract information from them.
With the "carrot" method, a suspect must have some assurance that he will actually get what he is promised. Whether that be what type of prison environment they are assigned to, whether they will be allowed to come out of solitary confinement EVER, etc, etc.
The "carrot" method has a long proven record of WORKING. That is my point. Not that I care one little bit about the rights of terrorists.
On the other hand, we have the "Stick" method: No lawyer, and plenty of torture (or whatever you want to call Waterboarding this week).
With the "stick" approach, we have experts in counter-intelligence all over the place telling us that it doesn't work...
...But because some people get some sort of visceral satisfaction from it, we continue to use it.
So again, you and the Cheney crew need to start thinking with your head, not your "guts".
Your incredibly naive and simplistic babble would be amusing if it wasn't all too likely that the morons presently infesting the American Government might not think along similarly retarded lines.
If you give ABDUL his Miranda rights, you fucking idiot, he may just take you up on them.
The last thing we want is for Abdul to think he has ANY option of refusing to give us the information we need.
Waterboarding isn't torture but even if it were I don't care. Torture is hideous and should be avoided where reasonably possible. But even so, we should do what we need to do to extract from these bastards whatever intel we need. And if that includes "torture," then so be it.
You, like many of your pussy ilk, dodged the question. Do you have ANY concept of what it felt like to be trapped inside the Twin Towers as they burned like a damn furnace a story or two below? I don't want to ever have any of our fellow citizens (or guests) subjected to that again, and most certainly not on the basis that we were too "refined" and too "civilized" to forcefully extract the information we needed when we could have gotten it.