..of conditioned codes of honour. Retired CIA general counsel John Rizzo complains about
irony:
He pointed out that while Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, better known as Abu Zubaida, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed were undergoing waterboarding in CIA detention, the United States was conducting lethal operations against terrorists. "There was never, ever, as far as I could discern, any debate, discussion, questioning on moral or legal grounds about the efficacy of the United States targeting and killing terrorists," he said.
"A lot of attention, a lot of criticism was given about the number of waterboarding sessions they [Abu Zubaida and Mohammed] had," Rizzo said, "but I don't believe there would have been nearly as much similar discussion about the number of bullets that would have been pumped into them if they had been killed rather than captured."
Truth be told Rizzo the moral hypocrisy of holding two such positions has been noted by scores of folks world wide, some even in your country.
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Sometimes you have to wonder what these people are thinking. They know that in this day and age, every word they say will be recorded by voice, video, newspaper, etc and yet they still flip flop all over the place. It seems too many are using someone else's words one time, and there own the next, and the rest of us get to sit and be confused and frustrated!
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