Meanwhile the Washington Post reports a group of World War II interrogators gathered on Friday at Fort Hunt and criticized the Bush administration's interrogation practices. 90-year-old Henry Kolm said: "We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or ping pong than they do today, with their torture." One of the World War II veterans refused to accept honors from the Army's Freedom Team Salute, citing his opposition to what has happened at Guantanamo and in Iraq.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/08/1340244
What about this? Is torture what the empire stands for?
2007-10-09 07:42:50 · 4 answers · asked by Washington Irving 3 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
I agree with you all. I even like Aladdin's phrase about Pres. Bush killing the ideal of America as the democratic vanguard. I would just like to make sure you guys know that Bush is killing more than an ideal (over a million people have died in HIS wars of choice) and that the epithet terrorist cannot be used in opposition to Bush, that is to say, what makes him any different from OBL? (other than vast nuclear stockpiles at his command and the fact that OBL seems to honestly believe he is helping a cause rather than just enriching himself)
2007-10-10 00:56:53 · update #1
George Bush is afraid of terrorists lurking around every corner and in every shadow. Each and every one with a "nuculer" device strapped to his back. His mind is so paralyzed with this fear that he thinks he needs to subvert the Contstitution of the United States of America to combat Terrorism when, in acutality, he is fulfilling the Osama Bin Laden's fondest wish. Terrorists kill a few people. George Bush is killing an Ideal; a Philosophy; a Nation of Freedom.
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2007-10-09 07:57:07 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't beleive our government for one seconed that they are not participating in torture techniques.
Especially the way are claiming the Geneva Convention laws can be interpreted as it deems necessary.
If they really get a hold of a terrorist that has such knowledge, I don't beleive they would confess to anything. For gosh sakes there are suicide bombings that happen, it seems, everyday in Afganastan and in Iraq.
2007-10-09 14:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by Seedna 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Torture DOES NOT WORK.
The Pentagon has told us that reliable intelligence comes from "building a relationship with the detainee."
That's right.
So........... why the hell are we torturing?
Oh, and for the bozos who say we DON'T torture?
If you wouldn't want it done to YOU or to your WIFE or your HUSBAND or your CHILD... then it's torture.
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To Aladdin: I like what you just said, that terrorists kill people, but George Bush is killing an ideal.
We really have to GET BACK to what America stands for.
What do we stand for?
2007-10-09 15:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
WWII
and wars of low and medium intensity are notthe same.
Low intensity wars need more intelligence than full intensity wars
2007-10-09 15:23:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋