re: #268 gregmw

I personally feel that there is no circumstance, no matter how dire, where such actions are justified. And while I may understand that others feel that those actions ARE justified in some circumstances, I strongly feel that those people who take such actions have a responsibility to themselves and to their society to accept accountability for said actions, and face whatever repercussions their actions entail.

I just heard an interview the other day with a terrorism expert. He said that Sheik Khalid Mohammed, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded 183 times before he started to talk. But, the information he gave after all those waterboarding sessions was invaluable. Terrorist attacks were averted, not only in the USA, but around the globe. Mohammend gave detailed information about how Al Qaeda works, how they recruit, where they get their money, what other attacks they had planned.

The “reprecussions” from waterboarding him was that thousands more innocent lives were saved. What “accountability” should those interrogators face? They deserve high praise for saving thousands of innocent lives. They can proudly look society in the eye (whoever “society” is) and say: “I helped keep you safe.”