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Date Posted: Friday, March 04, 09:27:27am
Author: AnOldFriend
Subject: You are correct
In reply to: Jacko 's message, "Well, that's an extreme example to justify torture" on Tuesday, March 01, 08:05:05am

Blow torches to the testicles could truely be described as torture, while waterboarding is more an illusion of torture. But of course you sit atop your comfortable throne where you do not have to make such decisions. Yet by your own admission, when push really came to shove you state emphatically that torture just might be the effective tool to use and you would not hesitate to use it. I sincerely hope you are never faced with such decisions, but Bush was. Now there are a lot of reasons to disagree with what Bush did while occupying the White House but to me that wan't one of them, because had I been President I would have made the exact same decision. One has to wonder how many Geneva Conventions the Swiss government would ignore if they were faced with similar decisions, but of course they aren't primarily because the U.S. has run interference for them & the rest of the free world for decades now.

I think you ought to run for President in 2012 Jackie so we can see what a marvelous President really looks like.

You have my vote sir and I would be happy to campaign for you.

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Replies:

You would see a marvelous president -- Jacko, Friday, March 04, 10:01:00am
- He played a part in it for sure. -- AnOldFriend, Monday, March 07, 12:01:58pm
You're too late, AOF, Dupe has fled the field with his tail between his legs -- Jacko, Friday, March 04, 10:02:28am
- Time will tell. -- AnOldFriend, Friday, March 04, 10:19:57am
  - He even wrote his own epitaph -- Jacko, Friday, March 04, 11:39:06am
    - I saw that and I also saw your reply -- AnOldFriend, Friday, March 04, 02:58:25pm
      - He's outta here -- Jacko, Friday, March 04, 03:20:22pm
      - Re: I saw that and I also saw your reply -- OliviaIngram18, Saturday, January 07, 05:00:18am
waterboarding is more an illusion of torture -- M's nemesis, Monday, March 07, 06:59:34am
- In my book waterboarding -- AnOldFriend, Monday, March 07, 02:59:36pm
  - HAHAHAH!! -- M's nemesis, Monday, March 07, 05:16:08pm
    - You jerk, -- AnOldFriend, Sunday, March 13, 12:11:27pm
      - WOW! -- M's nemesis, Sunday, March 13, 09:13:22pm
  - It also dishonors the nation -- Jacko, Tuesday, March 08, 08:25:40am
    - I personally do not feel dishonored by waterboarding. -- AnOldFriend, Sunday, March 13, 01:37:32pm
      - You left out Homma and Yamashita, to name just 2 -- Jacko, Sunday, March 13, 02:34:18pm
  - Eye for an eye -- turnipsmith, Monday, January 09, 01:28:54pm