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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding played a role in tracking down Osama bin Laden and should be reinstated, former US vice president Dick Cheney said Sunday.
Another top member of the Bush administration, former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, credited the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" with yielding "a major fraction" of US intelligence on Al-Qaeda and called ending them a "mistake."
In one of the first acts after entering the White House in 2009, President Barack Obama suspended such methods, equating them with torture and saying they represented all that was wrong with the Bush-era "war on terror."
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The real question to ask here is what defines "terrorism"? Because if you use the common definition endlessly regurgitated by the "media" our ever growing Big Brother fits the bill pretty nicely. If we can incarcerate without reason, hold without trial, search and seize, wiretap, torture, brutalize, rob, strip, bully, berate and kill without "just cause" or justification by law then who are we to label someone else as a "terrorist"? The American people have been duped into giving unlimited power to a group of people who are going to use that power to destroy them and their way of life and every time the masses start to wake a bit they get handed another reason to chant, wave the flag and sign more of their life away...
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