Do you believe that our government should have the right to torture terrorist suspects?

Question

Suspects! Do you realize how easily anyone could become a suspect? I too am glad that we have not been attacked again but our government torturing others has created more enimies of our country than anything else ever has. We no longer have any credibility amoung the other nations and everyone has to have allies.

Answer 1

Definitely not.

The section of the Geneva Conventions on torture states

Torture is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, both in cases of internal conflicts (Convention I, Art. 3, Sec. 1A), wounded combatants (Convention I, Art. 12), civilians in occupied territories (Convention IV, Art. 32), civilians in international conflicts (Protocol I, Art. 75, Sec. 2Ai) and civilians in internal conflicts (Protocol II, Art. 4, Sec. 2A).

If you had electrodes attached to your nipples and testicles, don't you think you would say absolutely anything which might stop the pain, irrelevant of its truthfulness.

Additionally, as a result of The Patriot Act, anyone can be arrested and deported to a CIA torture camp. and detained indefinitely without trial.
Don't go pissing off any policeman in the police state of America. As you say, anyone can be declared a terrorist suspect,. for no valid reason.

Answer 2

Thanks to the New York Times, we now know the dreaded torture methods the sadistic CIA used on captured AL-Qaeda big shots shortly after the 9/11 attack.

I warm you this is not pretty.

CIA interrogators stripped Zebadiah, put him in a cold room, and subjected him to listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers (yes the group).
Zebadiah broke and told of future plots and connections to other terrorist.
These are the methods held up by the Democrats and 4 Republicans as torture.
If some terrorist had captured your children or wife or husband or boyfriend or yourself you would want us to be able to ask, terrorist who had info about it, more than name, rank, and Jihad number?

Right now, the military can`t do anything to coerce information out of suspected terrorist. Thanks to the presidential hopeful Senator MC Cain. That's right nothing at all.
In fact the US police have more latitude questioning criminals than the military has with detainees captured on the battle field..

Now there is a question over what the CIA can do. This is what is under debate, the Torture that the Democrats and 4 Republicans are trying to stop.
Cold rooms
forced standing
sleep deprivation
grabbing a suspects shirt
slapping their belly
loud rock music
bright lights
That`s it! That is the so called torture.

Far left Princeton Professor, Paul Krugman asked in the NY Times on Sept 18th 2006, Why is that Mr Bush so determined to engage in torture?
I guess because we want to save lives from terrorist. Duh!

The Democrats have put a torture label on things that are obviously not torture. Causing a suspected terrorist discomfort is necessary at times to get information. We already have the high ground when our enemy tortures to death with dismemberment and we play loud music.

Enough is enough with these political games. Our enemies are laughing at our stupidity.

Answer 3

I don't believe in torture if you are talking about physical pain such as beatings, etc. But I do believe that what the government has done regarding sleep deprivation, etc is OK Depriving the terrorists of creature comforts hardly seems like torture to me when we see our people beheaded on TV. Get the press the hell out of the war and let the military win it without all the armchair generals and critics.

Answer 4

I personally do not believe that torture has occurred. Our soldiers esp. special ops & officiers are taught how to endure many what seem inhumane treatment during training. If you have information that other side wants, a simple asking will not get the answer. No answer can kill thousands. I do not have thousands of people I am willing to sacrifice because someone's feelings got hurt over treatment of Koran or any other book. The water seems harsh but no one died, it is not torture then.

Answer 5

Depends on what you call torture! Mutilating their bodies or using pain as cohersian should not be tolerated. Using psychological means of getting the information seems to be a more effective way and should be allowed. I have worked with many people that have questioned these people and using tactics like being nice to them and treating detainees like human beings seems to be more successful in getting information than treating them like dogs. You have to understand, most these people have been beaten or treated like crap most of their lives so this way of cohersion has no effect.

Answer 6

Actually it depends on your definition of torture.

If you mean cutting into the flesh with a knife? Absolutely not......

But the most common type of interrogation methods used is Sleep Deprivation and Humiliation. This is fine with me....

Yet......

There are those that believe that Sleep Deprivation and Humiliation are the same as Physical Torture when Clearly they are not the same.......

That is where the problems are arising...............

So it all depends on somones definition of torture........

Answer 7

Anyone who thinks torture is an effective way to get the truth is ignorant.

No matter what the method, moral or amoral, if applied long enough to anyone the individual will say anything to make it stop.

Answer 8

No however I dont believe the methods they are using are torture. I am sure glad we have not been attacked again

Answer 9

If these suspects are holding vital info that can save thousands of innocent lives, then I would support the govt.

Answer 10

First, who is YOUR government? Secondly, I, ME, MYSELF, feel that the US is doing FAR less to the terrorists than the terrorists are doing to everybody else. If somebody was going to kill your child, what would you do to get information to stop it from happening?????