http://donklephant.com/2009/04/16/torture-memos-released-no-prosecutions-for-cia-waterboarders/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://donklephant.com/2009/04/16/torture-memos-released-no-prosecutions-for-cia-waterboarders/comment-page-1/#comment-447600 Terry N Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:37:05 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=14488#comment-447600 I believe prison guards during in Nazi Germany used this same excuse. I believe prison guards during in Nazi Germany used this same excuse.

]]> http://donklephant.com/2009/04/16/torture-memos-released-no-prosecutions-for-cia-waterboarders/comment-page-1/#comment-447345 Kevin Jackson Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:11:51 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=14488#comment-447345 I have some appreciation for your statement "This could anger a lot of folks on the left, but I think it’s an incredibly dangerous precedent to prosecute folks for following orders" That said, we did it in WWII and found that saying you were following orders was no excuse so I do think once again that it makes us look like hypocrites. Should we let this go completely, I think it will guarantee that it will happen again. Nixon got us Iran-Contra, Iran Contra got us Bush Cheney. We either have core principles or we don't. I remember a time where if you said we tortured people it would have been considered unAmerican because." of course we were a better people than that and we would never go there" Someone should make sure we never go there again. We are better than that, or were before he tortured people in our names. I have some appreciation for your statement
“This could anger a lot of folks on the left, but I think it’s an incredibly dangerous precedent to prosecute folks for following orders” That said, we did it in WWII and found that saying you were following orders was no excuse so I do think once again that it makes us look like hypocrites. Should we let this go completely, I think it will guarantee that it will happen again. Nixon got us Iran-Contra, Iran Contra got us Bush Cheney. We either have core principles or we don’t. I remember a time where if you said we tortured people it would have been considered unAmerican because.” of course we were a better people than that and we would never go there” Someone should make sure we never go there again. We are better than that, or were before he tortured people in our names.

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