The U.S. has been tourturing a lot of suspected terrorists, to try to get information. When it started showing up in the news, people questioned why they could do it because it went against the geneva convention. Now Bush wants to re-interperate Article 3 of it, so its not as strict. If this happens, he wants to be able to nearly drown people, to get info. I personally think that tourture is wrong, but bush argues it is essensial for security. The thig is a lot of the people being toutrured aren't terrorists, dont know why they are locked up, or how long they will be there. Also, if the U.S. gets away with tourture and U.S. POW's could be tourtured too.
2006-09-22 17:55:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I think the US and broken UN and the Geneva convention on human rights for political prisoners. The whole world has seen the images that was taking place in these so-called prisons in Iraq setting dogs on them etc. Plus the in human act that was flash around the world. There have been report of US service men rapping Iraqi women. The torture is still going on but not on US soil but on a military base in Cuba. Thank God my government here in Ireland been a neutral country won't let US military plane land on our soil. But in one case a so called domestic flight plane landed in Shannon airport the Irish police checked the plane on to find it was carrying POW on board. They ordered the US to hand them over to the Irish state on the ground that the US had broken our laws. Next day in Irish press when the US embassy was ask to give a comment. They decline I wonder why?
2006-09-22 18:04:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
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2016-12-18 15:22:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American POWs get tortured anyway... most of those terrorists do not follow Geneva Conventions. Heck... did the Taliban present the US a declaration of war???
We gotta play with the same rules as the other side.
2006-09-22 17:59:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
You make assumptions that are incorrect. The first thing you need to do is listen/read what the new rules are.
Interrogation is not the same as torture.
While many of the people held and released were interrogated, this does not mean they were all tortured.
Your final statement is the only one that I could agree with; many military leaders were opposed to any definition of what Art. 3 for this reason.
2006-09-22 18:13:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I do not believe Geneva Conventions apply to terrorists to begin with....read them some time.
What you all are claiming as "torture" is not torture...look the word up BEFORE throwing it around.
And what's this "COULD BE TORTURED TOO"??? crap....do you think for one second that the terrorists are taking care of our soldiers? Do you actually believe the terrorists are complying with the Geneva Conventions?
What we do, or would do, would not be for enjoyment purposes, it is not personal, it is business. It is not like that for terrorists, they ENJOY inflicting pain.
2006-09-22 18:09:49 · answer #5 · answered by CrazyCatLady 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Torture has never worked for anyone. So I don't see the point .His policies have not worked and obviously won't. POWs in every war on every side have gotten tortured so it really doesn't matter. This whole thing makes no sense.
2006-09-22 19:06:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
To everyone that agrees with torture is NOT, despite their feeble protests, Christian! Anyone that agrees with torture IS a TRAITOR and an evil, cowardly, ignorant person.
Even Bush condemned torture and assaults on Human Dignity, saying that Human Dignity is clear and everyone knows what it means. This was in a speech at the UN in 2004. Ironically, it was on the very day that the torture in Abu Ghraib broke just a few hours later! Now he is pushing for it. Again. He and Cheney have been working to make torture legal since they got into office. The bill going through Congress right now was toned down in an agreement with McCain and a few others. It originally made all forms of torture legal, but McCain made him tone it down a bit!
Christians do not choose to torture people just because they couldn't find any evidence to convict or even try them in a court of law (over 90% of the detainees in Gitmo), and need to justify their torture and false imprisonment by convicting them based on coerced "confessions".
If you continue to support these people, regardless of what is going on right in front of your face, openly, then you are supporting what they are doing, and are thus NOT CHRISTIAN, not moral, not ethical, and not sane.
One thing every conservative seems to crave...at least the ones on here and in office...is hurting others at all costs. Find an excuse. Any excuse. It doesn't matter if there is any validity or truth in it. If it protect's your image of the president, you will believe it, you sick sheeple! There was videotape of the independent contractors under Bush's authority telling privates to sodomize a 6 year old boy, in front of his mother, to get a confession out of her. The woman and her boy were captured at random by Kurdish warlords that were being paid for every capture.
This is what you support? Really? Are you that sick? You don't think that sodomizing a 6 year old boy in front of his mother is torture? If you don't, then you should go live in North Korea or some other fascist dictatorship where that kind of thing is normal and legal! Leave us peace-loving, non-murderous People of the United States alone!
Has anyone else noticed how the conservatives are down-thumbing anyone that says that torture is bad? Does that mean that they really are that sick and perverted?
2006-09-22 18:07:04 · answer #7 · answered by corwynwulfhund 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
well, this happens alot in history like with the star chamber and the hermandades in the Renaissance. its also happened in the Holocaust and lots of other things and they all had their "good intentions". Hitler wanted to create a pure race and the monarchs wanted to make sure there was no threat to their power. all of these things are great you know, when you're the people doing them, but of course all other countries are like "That's not right!" i think its horrid, torture, but when we're the most powerful nation, you can never be too careful and although people who are not terrorists are being interrogated and tortured, its how we stay safe and stay on top of the rest of the world
2006-09-22 18:05:25 · answer #8 · answered by promiseME 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
First of all, I believe the Geneva Convention is a collection of laws written by a group of nations to be followed by waring countries in relation to treatment of prisoners. With that said, I dont understand how Mr Bush can think he can change any of those laws without the approval of all the other nations that help write it? Mr.Bush truly has delusions of gradure and all the ear marks of a dictator. These laws/rules also protect American Soldiers as well. Is he willing to sacrifice men and woman's lives to rewrite history in his own image?
2006-09-22 18:10:04 · answer #9 · answered by rgbear38 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
He's broken the Geneva Convention several times in the last few years, but he refused to bomb a funeral for a Taliban leader in Afghanistan which had 190 other Taliban leaders attending, just because it violated the Geneva Convention.
Honestly, he needs to decide one way or another. Eith break it all, or none of it.
2006-09-22 18:00:24 · answer #10 · answered by amg503 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋