Wonkette has a screen capture from FOXNews that simplifies the whole, complex, morality vs expediency issue of US torture policies -- in a way that only TV can dumb-down ...uh, er...simplify.Considering that the US released 500 detainees from Abu Ghraib just days ago -- as a part of Ramadan -- you'd hope they weren't terrorists "who want us dead."
That would suggest that not everyone detained is a terrorist. That interrogators question lots of people, decide some are not terrorists, insurgents, or whatever, and are free to go.
I know it's an old fashioned idea more in tune with the thoughts of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin -- but maybe there still is a place for that whole "innocent until proved guilty" concept we used to believe in.
Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave: He's credited so often with winning the Cold War -- what would he think knowing the gulags of eastern Europe were back in business -- and the US was running them?
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Every country which is for example a communist country is a country full of terrorists! But if they're just nice dictators who are nodding when the US wants them to, then its ok. Especially if they havent got oil.
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