re: #608 Dark_Falcon

Did you miss the waterboarding? The legal John Yoo justified waterboarding? These were political acts for a political audience.

I’m no innocent. If this worked I’d be for it. But it didn’t. In fact it was counterproductive. It made things worse. Instead Guantanamo has become a recruitment tool and it represents a lost opportunity for the information we could have gotten.

Torture was a political act for votes. That Bush would then spring a couple of well connected Saudis only further shows his lack of commitment to real anti-terrorism. Why chase down OBL when you can topple Saddam?