Why is ok for America to torture prisoners , but other country's can not?

Question

Sieg Heil, over 25 (reported) cases have resulted in deaths, yes thats torture extreme torture.

What's notable about the incidents of torture and abuse is first, their common features, and second, their geographical reach. No one has any reason to believe any longer that these incidents were restricted to one prison near Baghdad. They were everywhere: from Guantánamo Bay to Afghanistan, Baghdad, Basra, Ramadi and Tikrit and, for all we know, in any number of hidden jails affecting ''ghost detainees'' kept from the purview of the Red Cross. They were committed by the Marines, the Army, the Military Police, Navy Seals, reservists, Special Forces and on and on. The use of hooding was ubiquitous; the same goes for forced nudity, sexual humiliation and brutal beatings; there are examples of rape and electric shocks. Many of the abuses seem specifically tailored to humiliate Arabs and Muslims, where horror at being exposed in public is a deep cultural artifact.

The Schlesinger panel has officially conceded, although the president has never publicly acknowledged, that American soldiers have tortured five inmates to death. Twenty-three other deaths that occurred during American custody had not been fully investigated by the time the panel issued its report in August.

Answer 1

I thought this was interesting. It is from Amnesty International.

"By passing the Military Commissions Act, the United States Congress has, in effect, given its stamp of approval to human rights violations committed by the USA in the “war on terror”. This legislation leaves the USA squarely on the wrong side of international law, and has turned bad executive policy into bad domestic law."
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGAMR511572006

{Then [the guard] brought a box of food and he made me stand on it, and he started punishing me. Then a tall black soldier came and put electrical wires on my fingers and toes and on my penis, and I had a bag over my head. Then he was saying ‘which switch is on for electricity?’ Iraqi detainee, Abu Ghraib prison, 16 January 2004(1)}
"Euphemizing human rights violations threatens to promote tolerance of them. In similar vein, there has been a noticeable reluctance among senior members of the US administration to call what happened in Abu Ghraib torture, preferring the term "abuse".
[This] ... is also symptomatic of a tendency by the USA – notwithstanding its pivotal role in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent international human rights instruments – to reject for itself the standards it so often says it expects of others. The human rights violations which the US government has been so reluctant to call torture when committed by its own agents are annually described as such by the State Department when they occur in other countries. While the State Department reports are positive contributions to the global struggle for human rights, double standards have greatly undermined the credibility of the USA’s global discourse on human rights."
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511452004

Answer 2

Israeli Iraq torture lessons for US
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C182D988-28E3-4D48-ADFC-F15D6509B0EC.htm

Israeli Torture Template
Rape, Feces and Urine-Dipped Cloth Sacks
http://www.rense.com/general74/isral.htm

Bush and Torture Go Back
ACLU of Missouri Condemns Prisoner Treatment
http://archive.aclu.org/news/n081997a.html

Bush Given Authority To Sexually Torture American Children
The "horror of the shrieking boys" gets a rubber stamp from the bootlicking U.S. Congress & Senate as America officially becomes a dictatorship
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/290906sexuallytorture.htm

Answer 3

A lack of historical knowledge of foreign governments and how they operate indicates your true lack of information. Torture by foreign governments dwarfs ours. Ask the American military hero's that were captured and tortured in World War I, World War II Japanese theater of combat, World War II European theater of combat.Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. Although the truth is it would be extremely difficult to ask since a huge percentage died while in captivity. If you had decent knowledge of world history maybe you wouldn't ask such a question.

Answer 4

If you call "waterboarding" torture, get real. To your comment why other countries don't. They may not but they do behead criminals in countries that wear the burka. They castrate, cut off fingers, take out tounges. Isn't this torture hiding behind the cloak of thier fanatic laws?

Answer 5

As America is stronger.

Answer 6

Must show them respect no under wear on their head Do not scare them in any way!

Answer 7

It's called being hypocritical.

The most common argument is that the ends justify the means, and we only recognize our own ends as valid.

Answer 8

If you call what we do torture, you are too big a wuzzy to go out without your mom.

Answer 9

let's see...putting underwear on someone's head....as opposed to beheading someone????...hmmmmm

Answer 10

because America likes to pretend that we can do whatever we want.