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#1 Feb 17 2010 at 1:26 AM Rating: Good
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Number of suspects waterboarded: 3

(Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri)


Number of times this technique was used: 267

Number of confessions caused by waterboarding: 0

Number of pieces of substantive intelligence gathered through WB: 0

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#2 Feb 17 2010 at 6:50 AM Rating: Good
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#3 Feb 17 2010 at 6:59 AM Rating: Good
Waterboarding could've been a fun form of surfing. Thanks a lot, CIA...
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#4 Feb 17 2010 at 7:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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#6 Feb 17 2010 at 7:57 AM Rating: Good
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Timelordwho is right, instead of waterboarding we should be beating these people to within an inch of their lives.
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#7REDACTED, Posted: Feb 17 2010 at 8:51 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) We don't need to go through all that. Cut off a finger then tell them their balls are next. They'll tell you anything you want to know at that point.
#8 Feb 17 2010 at 8:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yep, at that point they'll tell you anything. Anything at all.
#9 Feb 17 2010 at 9:00 AM Rating: Good
publiusvarus wrote:
We don't need to go through all that. Cut off a finger then tell them their balls are next. They'll tell you anything you want to know at that point.


Well of course, people who are ready to commit martyrdom for their cause will surely betray their brothers if you threaten to cut their balls off.

I'm surprised the CIA hasn't contacted you yet.
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#10 Feb 17 2010 at 9:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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publiusvarus wrote:
We don't need to go through all that. Cut off a finger then tell them their balls are next. They'll tell you anything you want to know at that point.


I'd say that's sexist, but everyone knows that there are no woman terrorists.
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#11 Feb 17 2010 at 9:28 AM Rating: Good
Set them in a pen with hungry pigs.

Best case scenario, they talk and get eaten.

Worst case scenario, they get eaten.
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His Excellency MoebiusLord wrote:
Set them in a pen with hungry pigs.

Best case scenario, they talk and get eaten.

Worst case scenario, they get eaten.


This would be an excellent way to deal with Israeli terrorists.
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#13 Feb 17 2010 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good
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This would be an excellent way to deal with Israeli terrorists.

Fortunately, there'll be plenty of room for them after all the muzzies get et.
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#15REDACTED, Posted: Feb 17 2010 at 11:31 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/waterboarded-183-times-mainstream-medias-big-lies/
#16 Feb 17 2010 at 11:41 AM Rating: Good
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Sounds like a semantic defense there.

I both pointed out that it is not as widespread as most people believe, being used only on 3 people, all of them essentially terrorist upper management. These three had also previously confessed prior to torture/water boarding, in most cases stridently so. However, water boarding also did not generate any useful data. The CIA recognized this and has discontinued it.

So, there is a false dilemma here.
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