# Make torture! Not war!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-torture-not-war/157317>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 25, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-torture-not-war/157317 "2003-02-25T03:00:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-torture-not-war/157317/41 "2003-02-26T14:20:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by december \*  
> \*\*However, I read the OP differently than you did. I didn’t see where it addressed the motivation of war _supporters_. I read it as a criticism of the war’s _opponents_ – that they are ignoring humanitarian concerns. I think that’s a fair criticism. Or, more precisely, IMHO many war opponents are taking a one-sided view of humanitarian concerns. They focus on the harm that will result from a war, but air-brush away the on-going atrocities committed by the Ba’ath regime. \*\*

We are, unusually, in partial agreement then. I agree that there are a lot of knee-jerk peaceniks out there who oppose war _per se_, without considering that there are, occasionally, just wars; they deserve our opprobrium. There are others, like myself, who are only just in the anti-war camp. A Saddam-free Iraq is what we both want to see; it’s the method in which to do this that is debatable.

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