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'He authorized it's use against terrorists', which of course implies that it is a crime to torture someone before you can prove that individual is a terrorist. Thus every tortured individual must have been proven to have been a terrorist before being tortured.
Is that what you meant in answer to question 3, I just want to make sure I'm not accusing you of something you did not mean.
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Statements like that are what made me interject. Although we are closely following the Geneva Convention in most every aspect of our treatment of prisoners of conflict. I have to say there must in extreme situations be exceptions to every rule. And you are attempting to imply that no one should be labeled a terrorist until they are proven to be one. My question is, when do you prove that a person is a terrorist? Do you prove it after you follow the paper trail left behind after they kill 3,000+ unsuspecting American citizens, or after they blow up the double decker bus in downtown London....or do you wait until after Parliment or Congress has been partially or completely assaulted be it by planes, bombs, or anthrax etc......Or do you label them as a terrorist when you follow the paper trail to them before the actual act has taken place, or follow the trail through multiple contacts and multiple other methods and start to piece it all together before the actual act has taken place? When do you label them a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer?
There are unavoidable casualties, if given the choice I choose the casualty of a very few individuals debatable rights versus the casualty of thousands if not in this day and age 10's or 100's of thousands of innocent people wouldn't you? I mean especially if you were one of those innocent people that were part of the plan to be killed. Or your wife, son, daughter, mother, father? Think about it...really think about it, just don't spout off some mumbo jumbo BS about how it's all a made up government conspiracy that doesn't really exist just to give them the ability to get more oil or something type statement.