2006-10-17 11:28:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Jessi I have respected your answers for months.
Now all I can think is you are being held aginst your will at Ken Mellmans house.
When they tune into FOX try to escape.
2006-10-17 11:56:42 · update #1
Well at least they can be detained now and have some rights. Prior to this law being signed it was standard practice to execute enemy combatants. They were not covered by the Geneva Conventions so it was OK to just shoot them.
I applaud Bush and the brave Congressmen who voted to give these enemy combatants rights.
ADDED: Sorry I was only joking. You usually attract enough leftwing supporters so I felt like trolling for the right, unfortunately sarcasm doesn't come across on the comupter. But feel free to torture Jim W and Shiraz if that would make you happy.
Go Big Red Go
2006-10-17 11:45:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
It is un-American not to serve the interests of this country, when this country is in jeopardy of being attacked. However, seldom does the ends ever justify the means. I believe any Machiavellian endeavor to achieve our objectives is in fact un-American. In striving to preserve freedom, and be a beacon of hope to the world, does it make sense that we violate freedom and hope by acting as barbarically as those we deem to be tyrannical? Isn’t the act of unfettered torture a way of undermining the very things we hold dear?
Extraction of information through coercive means is sometimes necessary. I acknowledge that fact. However, once those means go beyond mere intimidation and the imposition of discomfort and result in the destruction or injury to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – the very things we extol – then we are no better than those we seek to bring to justice.
That is why I hope the legislation passed, governing the terms of torture, are nuanced enough to be efficacious in obtaining information from combatants, but at the same time it should be sane and humane enough to preserve our moral integrity and the rights of others to live.
People will always argue that the ends justify the means, especially in times of peril. What distinguishes a moral nation is the sense to know that sometimes the means by which we go about achieving something is an end in and of itself. I hope that the term American ultimately symbolizes a people whose highest calling is to do the right thing as opposed to what is the most expedient thing.
2006-10-17 19:29:30 · answer #2 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The words you choose shows your bias
I guess when yo are someone yu know or care about pays for a lack of information which the serves need, then you will understand
2006-10-17 19:37:50 · answer #3 · answered by Looking ahead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are a sick individual. As usual the libs are twisting the facts. Torture has not been legalized. The only thing the new law did was spell out what torture is so we don't violate it. Don't let a little thing called the truth stop you and your buds from spewing hate and constant lies.
2006-10-17 18:36:52 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Let's start with the people who voted for the torture an American bills. They terrify me, makes them terrorists doesn't it?
2006-10-17 18:31:15 · answer #5 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The new detainee law criminalizes what Bush and the CIA were already doing.
2006-10-17 18:41:04 · answer #6 · answered by notme 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In Ct they just put up this nice billboard saying.
"They voted to allow torture"
With the names of all those who voted to allow torture.Its nice.
2006-10-17 18:31:14 · answer #7 · answered by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
hell yeah both! They have been torturing us for too long
2006-10-17 18:33:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
All these dumb questions are burning my eyes...
2006-10-17 20:13:18 · answer #9 · answered by High-strung Guitarist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't give ideas to Dubyans, please
2006-10-17 19:55:28 · answer #10 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋