2006-09-24 07:20:24 · 8 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
No I don't think anyone can classify Abu Graab as torture.
2006-09-24 07:28:57 · update #1
What about homicides? Deaths while being interrogated, and homicide listed as the cause of death by American medical examiners? Could some of these be torture, even though America is not ruled by a dictator? Here's a report from Human Rights Watch April 2006, and another from September 2005. Also here's a freedom of information request on some homicides. You won't like the website, but the infor is from the federal gov't. Just read the left column that says cause of death. There were more than 30 as of March 2005, several soldiers have been prosecuted and dishonorably discharged already.
Human Rights Watch - Torture - Abuse of Detainees - Iraq - Afghanistan April 2006
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/ct0406/
"New Accounts of Torture by US Troops" Sept. 25, 2005 http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/25/usint11776.htm
Autopsies Reveal Homicides of Detainees and Prisioners in US Custody in Iraq, as of March, 2005 Freedom of Information Act Request
http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405/
2006-09-24 09:08:26 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The UN and Geneva conventions are clear and complicit in their definitions of torture. Honestly how can you not see sticking elctrodes on peoples private parts and brutataly raping women prisoners not torture?
2006-09-24 14:32:38 · answer #2 · answered by IRunWithScissors 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry can't help you. In real life barking dogs and wearing a hood do not torture make.
Mr G, if you thought that was torture, you are weak. I had harsher treatment than that becoming a shellback.
2006-09-24 14:28:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I guess the pictures that came out of Aru Garab prison don't count.
I do not accept that was individuals and not an institutional policy.
2006-09-24 14:24:13 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. G 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Are you on drugs or what?
Others have given so many examples, anything I could add would be redundant, always remember though:
" There are none so blind as those who will not see."
2006-09-24 22:53:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They made them listen to Al Gore speeches, I think that violates the Geneva Conventions.
2006-09-24 14:39:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The U.S. has never tortured it's prisoners although, I think they should. We would get all the info we need to end this muslim terror crap.
2006-09-24 15:19:19 · answer #7 · answered by Ted Kennedy aka Swimmer 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
you mean like people in jail here or pow's from another country. ah they all have rights anyway
2006-09-24 14:25:59 · answer #8 · answered by mike L 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋