Is torture a moral issue and why does Bush needs to be censured by the Supreme ccourt?

Question

before he remembers that we have signed the Geneva Convention

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/moral_compass

Answer 1

This is what i have to say in response to Victor Bout:

Typical conservative, not realizing that weakening the Geneva Conventions is going to do harm to our troops...

Answer 2

How come when it was the USSR , Japan, Germany ,Iraq,
doing the torturing it was such a vile, evil , despicable thing, but when it;s the USA, Israel, Egypt(when doing it on behalf of the US), Guatamala(when being performed by the US appointed stooge) and other countries allied to the US, it becomes a beautiful thing. There wouldn't be a double standard here perchance? Also for Douglas W.'s enlightenment since how does it qualify the statis of someone defending against an invader, just because the invader's are so disorganized, that they do not know how to declear an illegal war. That's like saying, that when Germany attacked Poland in a Blitzkreig(aka Shock and awe)in '39 that, because the defenders were not in the army, they were not lawful combatants. The Minutemen were for the best part not in uniform so were they terrorists or patriots? talk about making up your own rules as you go along. Bush should have to appear before the "World Court on Human Rights Violations & Crimes Against Humanity" In Belgium, the same as Milosovic, and that goes for Cheney & Rumsfeld. Oh I forgot, the US did not sign on, if I remember correctly & I do, Bush wouldn't allow any US citizen to appear before an international court. Yes it is very much a moral issue, it's regrettable that the US administration Have none-Doug W.

Answer 3

Yes, torture is a moral issue, but it is unlikely that Bush will be censured by the Supreme Court for practicing this or any other war crime in his "war on terror" — primarily because most of the Court is comprised of like-minded people (e.g. Scalia, Alito). The proper jurisdiction would be the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

Answer 4

To me, torture is necessary and expedient, therefore necessary to extract pertinent information from our enemy. The arab world realizes that their brave warriors will sing like canary's once captured, this is why their tactics are decentralized. In effect, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Yet, even the smallest tidbit of information is often helpful for our intel people, to complete the puzzle.

The civilian government, ACLU and the bleeding hearts should keep their collective @sses out of the affairs of war. All they succeed in doing is playing in to the enemies hands, and that will cost American lives. So, in their ill advised attempt to show humanity and concern for captured terrorists, they are guilty of helping the enemy kill Americans.

Answer 5

Due to the lack of knowledge on the original posters part, this person declines to answer what is not a valid question. It is highly recommended you review all news and print articles on the subject and then resubmit this missive in the appropriate fashion. Those of us with brains will thank you at that time.

Good day.

Answer 6

"Typical liberal more concerned about terrorist Constitutional rights than national security... "

Thats right because i would want OUR soldiers to be tortured and maimed if they were held captive by an enemy!!!!

NOT!!!

Typical Neocon more concerned with getting your way than doing whats right.

your outright disregard for human rights brands you an "extremist" too.

"lets make it okay to commit war crimes!!! THAT'LL make people respect our authoritai!"

we all know that whether torture is legal or not our country does it anyways... One could say that we should make this crime unpunishable... maybe just get rid of the illusion of decency... but when we stop even trying to be decent we've become basically animals.

torture is a war crime... making it legal puts us in a position to completely disregard human rights --

--without consequences -- or so some of us like to think.

The Genva convention was not neccesarily made to protect our soldiers it was to govern ourselves. Maybe it was because we were striving to set higher standards for our nation... our nation that goes around crying so much about human rights violations...

Answer 7

I don't think you have even the slightest inkling of what you are trying to say.

The President has not tortured anyone (with the possible exception of the "I hate Bush" liberals whackos who can't bring themselves to admit that they lost to him twice).

Answer 8

Torture is only a moral issue for the U.S., not for anybody else.

Answer 9

Yes it is a moral issue, if we stoop to that of our enemy's we become them. He has pushed the envelope into illegality more then any president that I can remember. Even the war itself was based on the lies that he told.

Answer 10

....which applies to p.o.w.'s(sadly though all the cowards-8democrats8 held up the declaration of war) so the TERRORIST arent pow's...damn NOW THERE's AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH for you.