2007-05-03 00:45:03 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I'd crack and tell them everything as soon as they showed me the rubber hose !!!
I would in fact ask them if they could just take a statement without even bothering to show me the tools... and I would ask them if they could give me some makeup so it looked like I'd been beaten :)
That's why I'm not in tha army, and I admire and support those who are!
Philip
2007-05-03 08:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by Our Man In Bananas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many years ago when I was in Vietnam I was scared about that sort of thing happening as I was in a small unit way out in the boonies. At some point I made the decision that I could not endure capture and had decided to kill myself rather than be taken prisoner. I can't begin to explain the dynamics of that decision on this page but it was very real and I'm glad it never was tested.
2007-05-03 00:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by gamerunner2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as i have been told many times, everyone cracks at some point. the thing is torture happens in many different ways from mentally to physically to emotionally and so on.
time after time of any of this will break down the spirit and mind of any man, the one thing all soldiers are told inbriefings just before being deployed is to focus your mind on other things, and to remember its a game you might might not have info but they will carry on till you tell them what they want to hear and that could be the truth or lies.
but remember to tell a lie you have to be an excellent liar, and this is is harder than you think.
2007-05-03 01:14:45 · answer #3 · answered by francis f 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a bit of a stupid question in the sense of how do you know what you will react like under pressure it is all very well to say about torture I am sure that anyone caught in Iraq is not thinking that.
Some of these countries will do what they feel they need to and they do not give a **** about the Geneva convention.
In most cases if you do not know anything you are banging your head against a brick wall.
2007-05-03 04:45:41 · answer #4 · answered by Edgein 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's actual a political subject. the full controversy became into trumped up for politcal motives. the information media and the folk on the left have used the notice "torture" many times returned till all of us basically assumes it could have take place. not something interior the CIA memos gave the impression of torture to me. The suggestions have been unsightly and uncomfortable, yet not torture. Torture includes actual injury and tissue injury.
2016-10-14 10:36:02 · answer #5 · answered by niehoff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have read alot about this subject. The opinion is everybody will eventually crack when torture the only variation is the time it takes to do so. (unless your Jack Bauer in 24!!)
2007-05-03 00:49:42 · answer #6 · answered by fosyfos 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most likely, the human body and the link to the mind separate at some point as a result of pain and desperation.
Ask John McCain, I believe he has a fair amount of experience as a POW.
2007-05-03 01:55:22 · answer #7 · answered by rmagedon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really dont know as I have never been tortured before. The only thing I could do is mentally prepare for it if it were to happen.
2007-05-03 00:55:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Undoubtedly. Anyone will crack eventually if tortured.
2007-05-03 04:32:32 · answer #9 · answered by Huh? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would like to be leave that i could hold out for even a little time... but then i would crack i think.... but everybody should hold out even for a short time as more time gone by more then likely what ever you was doing might be finished so if you cracked and told all it might not matter..... as your unit etc might be moved on or in a total new area.... so all info given might be out of date......
2007-05-03 01:37:22 · answer #10 · answered by bellyman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋