Its funny that you use the wiki site for nuclear terrorism and claim its a real threat, but then you look at the wiki site for water boarding and claim that the entire thing is made up. |
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There are very specific individuals that they did not work on. |
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Last edited by Universal Mind; 06-09-2009 at 09:04 PM.
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Its funny that you use the wiki site for nuclear terrorism and claim its a real threat, but then you look at the wiki site for water boarding and claim that the entire thing is made up. |
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When did I do that? I know "experts" claim American style waterboarding is "torture". I don't agree with them. Also, that issue is much more subjective than the issue of whether nuclear terrorism is a possibility. |
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The wiki site says "water-boarding or mock drowning, where a prisoner is bound to an inclined board and water is poured over their face, inducing a terrifying fear of drowning clearly can result in immediate and long-term health consequences. As the prisoner gags and chokes, the terror of imminent death is pervasive, with all of the physiologic and psychological responses expected, including an intense stress response, manifested by tachycardia (rapid heart beat) and gasping for breath. There is a real risk of death from actually drowning or suffering a heart attack or damage to the lungs from inhalation of water. Long term effects include panic attacks, depression and PTSD. I remind you of the patient I described earlier who would panic and gasp for breath whenever it rained even years after his abuse" |
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Stop lying. Seriously. It is ridiculous. I know what responses happen, and I know what can happen if it is performed incorrectly, and I not only never said otherwise but also kept agreeing with it. This is stupid. |
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Actually you made the argument many times that it wasn't at all true. Then when you found yourself losing the argument, you made the claim that its not the "US style" of water boarding they were talking about, even though it is. |
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Universal Mind, are you willing to volounter yourself to be waterboarded for the sake of your arguement that waterboarding is not torture? |
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Bull shit. I never denied what waterboarding always involves, and I said you have no evidence that the woulds and coulds have actually happened during American waterboarding. Get it right. |
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No it has nothing to do with security. Its because they live over there, and not over here. Its a lot easier to to plan attacks in your own country, and possibly into neighboring countries. Its far more difficult to do so in a country half a world away, in a country that doesn't even speak the same language as you. |
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This is a good read for those who seek to understand Al Qaeda. |
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I find it amusing that you believe that the three people who withstood all other interrogation techniques told everything once they got a bit of water on their face. |
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I already understand them, and it doesn't take any understanding at all to realize that their not an actual threat. I mean even the link you just posted show they are not a real threat to us. Just read it over it. They list attacks but there isn't anything at all recent. |
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Once again, we never tortured anyone. |
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Are the terrorist leaders having problems? I can give no real answer besides "I don't know". If you have access to any documentation or studies that have been performed to examine the long term effects of waterboarding, please share it with us. If you've already posted a link to any source for this specific information then I apologize in advance for missing it, as this thread has grown quickly and I have not kept up with every response. I'd also like to point out that U.S. special forces are like another breed of human beings entirely, at least as far as physical and mental stress endurance goes. Because of this I cannot say that I'm convinced that they'd work as an adequate measure of how safe waterboarding is for any other military personnel, whether they be friendly or hostile. |
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Now who's joking? I've seen your "explanation" plenty of times and not only have I countered it, but I've provided documentation that counters it. So far as I can tell, you've only given your opinion on it, while stating the affects in the most minimal terms - actually giving no acknowledgement to what's really documented as happening when being waterboarded, as opposed to just what would happen if it was as tame a procedure as you seem to think it is. |
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once again, you're wrong. here's why; |
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Last edited by sleepingdog; 06-10-2009 at 02:30 AM.
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I've already talked about that. The passage covers what always sucks about waterboarding (parallel to a criminal trial, getting tasered, getting shot in the leg while resisting arrest, etc.) along with a bunch of extra horrific coulds. I keep asking if any of those coulds have actually occurred in American waterboarding, and nobody has mentioned any yet. Do you know of any such incidents? |
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If you're talking about any coulds such as those listed in the wikipedia entry, I've already listed them, and they are bad enough to be deemed torture. If you're being literal, such as an explanation of how 'getting shot in the leg is not analogous to water boarding', then I'm afraid I have nothing for you - merely for the fact that I won't explain that which I believe you already know. |
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... if they happen. As far as all of us in here are aware, the coulds (broken bones, brain damage, lung damage, death, etc.) have not happened in American waterboarding. |
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this has been your stance all along (not; waterboarding is not torture). you should be aware that no one (anywhere) is claiming (successfully) waterboarding isn't torture. (see SadlyNo! for deconstructions of common arguments) now, you can use self-defense to say you had to torture (like our funny bomb/hostage stories), but the fact remains that you tortured. |
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Last edited by sleepingdog; 06-10-2009 at 05:06 AM.
"want to sleep, but now i stand. yet i still remember your sweet everything." - 4th of July.
sure. i'll do it right now; |
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Last edited by sleepingdog; 06-10-2009 at 11:49 AM.
"want to sleep, but now i stand. yet i still remember your sweet everything." - 4th of July.
I am the only one think that this thread has become a negative turmoil? |
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I don't care about "consensus". It is not proof. The "consensus" used to be that the world is flat. The "consensus" in the world presently is that ghosts are real. Does that settle the issue? |
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