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@WalshFreedom I'm sure you'd enjoy being punched and smacked while being dragged naked just because they got your identity wrong.

@Thefalkon @WalshFreedom They Didn't get it wrong

@rupertbe kind of a hypothetical situation. report claims some where tortured just because the CIA got their identity wrong, as well as

@Thefalkon Do you think a captured combatant has the right not to tell us what he knows?

@rupertbe @Thefalkon A captured combatant has that per the Geneva Conventions. And if civilian the right to remain silent comes into play.

@whvholst @Thefalkon I just don't get the moral argument against beating a prisoner when the alternative is droning him and his family.

@rupertbe @Thefalkon False dichotomy. There is always another, morally acceptable and often more effective alternative: normal interrogation

“@WalshFreedom: Yea we engage in torture. Good. Big deal.” — and on a certain level, that's fine. Just stop pretending you're righteous.

Anyone who expects the US to hold itself to unassailable morals born in Hollywood fiction is a naive fool, or pushing their own agenda.

That said, it would be nice if their propaganda wasn't such sickeningly self-righteous hypocritical bullshit. Lie less, or lie better.

@ivovic The US is routinely perpetrating many of the worst things they're blaming their enemies for. I don't believe that this is right.

@gdeichen I agree, so since they're not going to stop running a war-based economy, perhaps they could just stop lying about being righteous.

@ivovic I'd rather that they stopped torturing, rendering and drone bombing.

@gdeichen yeah, maybe you have the wrong impression of me. I want that too, I just think it's naive to ask for that. Not going to happen.

@WalshFreedom Only an idiot would support ineffective torture that puts our troops all across the globe at risk of harm.

@WalshFreedom @nifkin_juice without pausing to reflect that maybe the horrible things done to protect the country were endangering it

@stockputout @WalshFreedom don't expect to change his mind. He can't even pay his child support

@nifkin_juice @WalshFreedom supports the war on terror, not his child, smh