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lem
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I was reading the bbc, and I couldn't help but think that Mr. Ridge was a Jack Bauer fan.

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Mr Ridge told BBC News 24's HARDtalk: "By and large, as a matter of policy we need to state over and over again: we do not condone the use of torture to extract information from terrorists."

But he said it was "human nature" that torture might be employed in certain exceptional cases when time was very limited.

In the event of something like a nuclear bomb threat "you would try to exhaust every means you could to extract the information to save hundreds and thousands of people", he said.

I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to abduct Rumsfield and try him for war crimes.

[ January 14, 2005, 05:08 PM: Message edited by: lem ]

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