So what do you do when you have to defend the indefensible?
We don't torture.What is torture anyway? Is dunking someone's head in water torture? Isn't that what fraternity brothers do in a hazing ritual?
Seriously? This is your best argument? So this was all just a prank? When do we yell Surprise! ?
Even if it is torture, we did it to bad guys who deserved it.
The problem is not just what torture did to the prisoners. What did it do to us? And to our system of Government. The lesson of Watergate, for Cheney and Rumsfeld, was that only the little people go to jail. You let them get away with it, what will the next criminal VP do?
We did it to save lives.
No you didn't. You did it to get false confessions that would confirm your fantasies of an Iraqi link to 9/11. And to establish they had WMD.
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