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  1. Additionally, IMHO, though the distinctions between torture and interrogation may appear blurred, there are distinctions nonetheless. It is not my intent to explore that argument in this thread, merely to reiterate the interrogation techniques yielded the desired results. The location though known is not important, but we all know the objective of those seeking to close the location is to end these interrogation techniques.

    And the end of those techniques is what puts us in ever greater danger. The Obama admin's elimination of the CIA Detainee Program and its enhanced interrogation techniques will probably make it much more difficult to obtain the intel necessary to track down terrorists in the future.

  2. Well I dont know about that ...

    What, you don't believe the New York Times?

    As Obama administration officials described it, the real breakthrough came when they finally figured out the name and location of Bin Laden’s most trusted courier, whom the Qaeda chief appeared to rely on to maintain contacts with the outside world.

    Detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had given the courier’s pseudonym to American interrogators and said that the man was a protégé of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

    Thank God for broken promises.

  3. It only took nearly 10 years. In any event, killing Bin Laden isn't the end of radical Islamic terrorism. He was just one head of the hydra, and when you cut it off, another grows back in its place. I echo Lake of Shadows sentiments about being worried about reprisals. They will happen. We need to be prepared. All this did was make him a martyr to that cause, no matter how much he deserved to be fish food.

    A bittersweet victory. Definitely not the end of the war on terrorism. At least 471 Taliban inmates recently escaped from Afghan prison...

  4. Okay. Great. So pot and booze were combined. Who said combining drugs was a good idea?

    Nobody, but that's what you will probably get more of with legalizing weed.

    the very fact that booze was involved negates the point you're trying to make, though. This one can't be pinned on marijuana, quite simply because alcohol was involved. As such, it's a combination of drugs, which is something the study wasn't considering.

    I wasn't trying to pin it just on pot, but the combination of pot and booze.

    Marijuana, by itself, combined with no other drugs, has ever killed a single person in its recorded history.

    It wasn't marijuana by itself that killed them. It was an auto accident caused by pot and booze.

  5. Closing the Mexican border at least temporarily would seem like the most sensible thing to do but I doubt BO is going to do it. He is counting on the votes for future election and also the census count. Probably more concerned that he might insult the Mexicans than he is about any pandemic. :slapface:

  6. I think Elvis is a joke.

    How unKeith-like..

    "In the one-hour exclusive, SIRIUS subscribers will experience a rare trip into the mind of Keith Richards as he shares stories on a variety of topics including his three day road trip with John Lennon through England, his first encounter with Muddy Waters at Chess studios, his infamous meeting with Peter Tosh, meeting Chuck Berry, and the life-changing experience of hearing Elvis Presley for the first time on Radio Luxembourg."

    http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articl...119122007-1.htm

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