2006-10-31 08:12:09 · 20 answers · asked by JS 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. "It's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said at one point in an interview.
The U.S. Army, senior Republican lawmakers, human rights experts and many experts on the laws of war, however, consider water-boarding cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment that's banned by U.S. law and by international treaties that prohibit torture. Some intelligence professionals argue that it often provides false or misleading information because many subjects will tell their interrogators what they think they want to hear to make the water-boarding stop.
2006-10-31 10:43:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer to your question is that we have been using water boarding, so if he admits we are doing it and considers it torture, then he admits to torture. Of course, no real American cares how much we torture people like Bin Laden and his leaders, it is when we employ it on people that we have no idea whether they are guilty of anything, like in Abu Ghraib, that people have a problem with it.
2006-10-31 08:22:55 · answer #2 · answered by Believe in Possibilities 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like Cheney but he is right. I think that water boarding isn't torture. It's only throwing water on people's face. This could get terrorists scared and talk about potential attacks.
2006-10-31 08:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by cynical 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Let's see, Ahmed, because it isn't. Water Boarding saved hundreds of people's lives when the latest terrorist plot with the liquid explosives. Them or us...I take us any day.
2006-10-31 08:23:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Torture? Waterboarding is designed to make someone fear they will drown. How is that torture? We used to do that to each other in the pool during the summers when I was a kid. Sure it is scary to be held under water, but we all knew we would be safe in the end. It is a scare tactic, not torture. Anyone who would consider that torture is a wuss.
2006-10-31 08:24:13 · answer #5 · answered by El Pistolero Negra 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It is not "toture" compared to what your fellow rag heads are doing to US troops and American citizens.
We will do what it takes to prevail. Do not take in the fuzzy minded liberal college idiots that you hear on this site. The minute they have to make a payroll pay their own way in life they will become conservatives.
2006-10-31 08:23:48 · answer #6 · answered by yankeescowboyssooners 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
He's never been to war, and he certainly should be the first to try water boarding.
2006-10-31 09:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He renamed it dunking and now it sounds like fun to him. Seriously, I think they got a bit of info once from waterboarding Khalid Sheik Mohammad, and they believe that justifies all the other torture they did to him and other detainees. And to them, this one bit of information (that they possibly could have obtained through regular interrogation) also justifes throwing out the Geneva Conventions and massive spying and data gathering on all Americans. This is what happens when we elect extremists like Cheney -- they go to extremes..
2006-10-31 08:15:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Because it is a means that is justified by the ends. Machiavelli would be proud.
2006-10-31 08:26:25 · answer #9 · answered by Andreas 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The administration defines torture as something that causes permanent physical or mental damage. Most would say that water boarding causes neither. Keep in mind that it is their definition of torture. Different people define it differently.
2006-10-31 08:15:21 · answer #10 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 7⤊ 4⤋