Should Americans approve of the government's use of torture, even during the War on Terror?

Question

Does the use of torture degrade any society which approves of its use? Should torture be classed with slavery as a totally unacceptable and dispicable practice?

One additional problem with governmental use of torture, which you might consider, is that, once set in stone as policy, its use could easily be extended to American citizens.

Answer 1

no to torture and yes it is "unacceptable and despicable".

this holds true for every human being for what ever reason

Answer 2

Yes we should use it in or during time of war. Would any of us want these practices done to prevent another 9/11 or worse? Is it ok for us to sit back and let terrorist torture people or cut our heads off?

No tree huggin hippies here my friend, go see the ACLU or some Liberal who wants to sell out our country and just give the free world away. Go bother the UN or some other useless organization !

Answer 3

Would you consider lopping off a civilian's head to be torture. I agree with Lucky. The terrorists idea of torture is hideous. By comparison, we use a slap & tickle form of torture. Ours is less about grizzely bloodletting and more about aggressive mind manipulation. But as a general rule, the person getting tortured eventually walks, talks, and breathes again.

So to answer your question-Oh hell yes, torture the S.O.B.s.

Answer 4

We are fighting the most "politically correct" war in our history. If Bush fought this war like Rosevelt did all you left wingers would pass out. You would have every general and all military in prison for not fighting fair. lol We are fighting, defending our country from people who want to destroy us and our way of life! Geez they want to rape our wives and daughters before they kill them. Cut your private parts off and shove them down your throat before they behead you. But that's not our way, in comparison to how they treat us I'd say we are more than fair. Reality is slowly fading away with common sense. The only ones who can defeat us are ourselves. And we seem to be giving it a good try!

Answer 5

We should not approve torture, both because it is exactly the kind of behavior which makes terrorists the bad guys (and our disallowing it makes us the good guys), but also because it doesn't work. Information extracted under torture is often innaccurate and unreliable.

Answer 6

Torture has always been against human rights.
Those Americans who torture people today must have descended from the same genes as their ancesstors crucifying Jesus Christ.

Answer 7

They should stay in line with the Geneva convention from after world war two which does not change with time but stays in time on planet earth.
Our creator caught those who get out of the line with what went wrong out there on planet earth.
So do stay in line.

Answer 8

It used to be even enemies during war would observe even basic "rules of war". That doesn't happen much anymore. We used to be able to determine who was who in battle...now we don't know who is friendly, and who isn't.

Why should adhere to any rules or laws of combat, when our enemy does not?

Eye for an eye, in my opinion.

They cut off the head of one of our guys, we cut the heads off of 1,000 of theirs.

Asker: Not necessarily. We're talking about war time and used against our enemies.

Answer 9

Torture should never be condoned. Just look at the abuses in Abou Graibh. It turned out that most of those prisoners were innocent, pulled off the streets.

We invaded Iraq on evdience based on lies, doctored evidence. We removed the dictator. But 100,000 innocent civilians died as a resultm not forgetting over 2,000 brave soldiers, all cannon fodder for the greed and agression of this government. In the meantime they arev laughing all the way to their offshore accouhnts. Just look at the Billions which Cheney has made from the Iraq war...This is what Fox or CNN will never tell you...


Halliburton Profits Skyrocket On Iraq Deals

Thu Jul 31, Financial Times

By Sheila McNulty in Houston

Halliburton, the second biggest oilfield service company in the world, on Thursday said work in Iraq had boosted revenue as it swung from a loss to record second-quarter net income of $26m , or 6 cents a share, compared with the year-earlier period.

The Houston-based company credited the quarter's 11 per cent rise in revenue, to $3.6bn largely to increased activity in its Engineering and Construction Group (ECG) projects, including government services work in the Middle East.

The second quarter of 2002, to which this past quarter's results were compared, included charges for asbestos liabilities, losses at its Barracuda-Caratinga project in Brazil and restructuring and sales charges.

Halliburton is in the process of finalising a $4bn settlement of asbestos claims. The Barracuda-Caratinga project continues to weigh on its results, with a $173m pre-tax loss on the project in the second quarter of 2003.

Nonetheless, the results this past quarter included a foreign exchange gain of $19m because of a significant strengthening of the British pound against the US dollar during the period.

"We expect earnings per share from continuing operations for the third quarter to be at least 32 cents per share, excluding any impact of the proposed asbestos settlement," David Lesar, Halliburton chairman, president and chief executive, said.

The company's ECG revenues increased 23 per cent, with government services more than doubling, mainly because of activity in Iraq.

Nonetheless, ECG recorded an operating loss of $148m, narrower than the loss of $450m in the year-earlier quarter.

That was because Halliburton had taken a $330m asbestos charge in 2002 and this year had recorded heightened activity in Iraq.

Halliburton ended the second quarter with cash and equivalents of $1.9bn, up from $1.1bn at the end of 2002.










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Answer 10

let me think the other side is cutting off heads ,we deprive you of sleep hmmm is this equal .wait wait I am thinking