Right, because the occasional typo in a string of casual text disproves everything the person was trying to say.

I wasn't sure if you were being facetious, and nor can you about my post.

If you want to chide someone on their mastery of the English language, you should at least get your own sentence right. It should be “whomever”.

I noticed that mistake as well, but that doesn't make any of those *facts* any less true. What you are doing, sir/ma'am, is called an “ad hominem” argument, and it is a fallacy. According to Wikipedia: “Ad hominem abusive usually involves insulting or belittling one's opponent, but can also involve pointing out factual but ostensible character flaws or actions which are irrelevant to the opponent's argument. This tactic is logically fallacious because insults and even true negative facts about the opponent's personal character have nothing to do with the logical merits of the opponent's arguments or assertions.” The logical merits of this infographic are not made less legitimate by a spelling mistake.

I just love how it isn't acceptable for the US to torture people. And every civil rights group is up in arms over it. Why not go to the Middle East or similar situation where torture is probably a way of life!

@liberalscanlickmyballs your arguments are as sophisticated as your screen name.

first, waterboarding is legally defined as torture. so, if you don't respect the rule of law, fine, but at least acknowledge that. if you do respect the rule of law, why not start a campaign to make waterboarding legal?

second, if you still want to break the law, do something that works. career professional interrogators (these torturers were not career professionals) don't like torture, because it results in bad intelligence. bad intelligence comes from victims doing anything they can to make the pain stop. that's why the head of Britain's interrogation centers in WWII said ““Never strike a man. It is unintelligent, for the spy will give an answer to please, an answer to escape punishment. And having given a false answer, all else depends upon the false premise.” worst of all bad intelligence eats resources that could be used to address real threats.

next, if someone has to be waterboarded 83 times, is it working? come on, if there's a ticking time-bomb, you're going to have to do better than that!

you express concern that one of “your loved ones be caught and tortured in war”. well, if the united states continues to follow in the footsteps of barbarians, rather than take the high ground of moral leadership, your fears are more likely. “the americans did it to us,” can be used as a rationale. i find it amusing that your solution to protecting the world from barbarians is to become one. plus, if one of plus, if one of your loved ones is tortured, you have less grounds for redress and your options for obtaining justice have been seriously diminished. way to go, einstein.

finally, the worst aspect of all of this has nothing to do with torture, but rather with diplomacy and national security. this is why reagan pushed for and signed the u.n convention against torture. i'd like to believe that reagan respected the u.n. and cared about the rights of all people. but i think it's more likely that reagan was more savvy than that, and knew that torture is a huge threat to national security. 1. it doesn't work 2. it wastes resources that could be used against real threats 3. it inflames international sentiment against the u.s., promoting terrorism.

bush isn't stupid. he knew that his comment would inflame the muslim world against us. george bush just filmed a recruiting video for al queda. this clip will be played millions of times by muslims around the world, giving them one more reason to join al queda. bush knows that this statement would create more terrorists and doesn't care. “with friends like these…”

by the way, obama is contributing to all this. 1. he is not prosecuting the bush administration for illegal acts that have been confessed on national television. 2. he is not closing guantanamo 3. he is continuing rendition to third world states 4. he is growing the bagram prison in afghanistan, a guantanamo doppelganger.

Water-boarding is not torture. It causes no  permanent damage. It actually does no real harm. It just causes severe discomfort. This post is  biased.  Water boarding was essential to the execution of  Osama Bin Laden. Without it he would still be out there. It is a unpleasant yet humane way of obtaining information from enemy soldiers. As for Mancow he doesn’t know what torture is if  he thinks water boarding is torture.