How is it possible that the United could ever approve Torture?

Question

US acknowledges using Torture.

http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2005/06/24/afx2110388.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1206725,00.html

Answer 1

The US not only approves of torture but they have also rewritten the rules of what torture is . but don`t think its only America that approves of kidnapping and torture European Governments are also implicated .An even more sickening fact is there is also evidence of kidnapping suspects families including Children as young as 7 years old who have been held in CIA facilities for months and mistreated and bullied in an effort to obtain information about their Fathers whereabouts .
Hundreds of people have been released with out charge after years in Guantanamo .Any country that condones this kind of treatment of hundreds of innocent people in the hope of getting information has no right to call themselves civilised or point their finger at any one else
Its got to the point now that when George Bush Condemned President Mugabe`s atrocities in Zimbabwe . Mugabe`s response was to accuse him of rank hypocrisy

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=25cf4755-a865-4239-992f-26408507c6fa&k=80971

Answer 2

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Answer 3

For God's sake. All of this nonsense about torture. Some guy is made to wear panties on his head and that is supposed to be torture. Take a look through history to find out what true torture has been over the centuries. The middle ages, the Spanish Inquisition. The left and it's moaning and whining about torture are a joke. The rack, iron maiden, drawing and quartering and a hundred others--these represent actual torture.

Answer 4

We've long supported and abetted torturers; we've put some in power.

But now we have taken the final step toward being torturer ourselves.

Our leader was put in office through fraud, and, after we were attacked, Congress and way too many of the American people informally pronouced him dictator with free reign.

Oh, and the press, like Congress, abdicated all responsibility for actually doing their jobs.

That's how.

And now, an increasing proportion of citizens of the United States approves of torture.

Because "we have to support our president" however wrong he is.

Answer 5

The reason that we did not approve of torture was in the hopes that our troops would not be subject to it. If we did not torture, then others would not torture. Not true, but we held ourselves to a higher caliber. The American people believe in this & believed that we did not torture prisoners. Now we find that our government has allowed this to happen. Shameful. We have dishonored ourselves. There are more civilized ways to obtain the truth other than by torture. We certainly know them & should have used those methods to get information.

Answer 6

People are people and human nature is what it is.

I'm amazed that you worded your question the way you did; after all, many Americans owned slaves in the past.

And what we call torture today used to be accepted practice in the past. For example, drawing and quartering....we'd never dream of it today, but it was VERY acceptable in the not too distant past. Look at how it was acceptable to legally stone or drown "witches" back in early America.

It is hypocritical to pretend that we're perfect.

And it's even more hypocritical to demand that we try to BE perfect. We're either better than everyone else, or we're not. You can't have it both ways.

Answer 7

It's possible because people are afraid, and fear causes people to resort to things they wouldn't normally accept. I mean, the same people who don't trust the covernment with a one cent tax increase because "they're all corrupt up there in Washington" somehow trust these same guys to torture only the bad guys, and never turn these techniques on their own citizens.

I am reminded of the old story of the frog in the pot of water. You turn up the heat too fast and he jumps out. Do it a little bit at a time and you can boil him to death before he knows it. After all, if terrorist deserve torture and no legal review, why give it to child molestors? Hey, they're almost as bad, maybe worse! And if we're going to do that to them, why not to murderers? They terrorize their communities. And so on, and so on.

Answer 8

Ultimately our soldiers and our citizens abroad will be subject to the same treatment. If we want to portray ourselves as the beacon of freedom and the center of peace and democracy, we cannot stand behind our administration on this issue (as well as others). If we want to continue simulated drowning or any other treatment that simply 'does not cause death or failure of organs,' then we must be willing to accept that our citizens and soldiers are also subject to these methods and should be held indefinately in other countries with no charges and no trial. We must be willing for our own people to suffer humiliating, degrading, inhumane treatment by others in their own effort to retrieve 'information.'

Answer 9

Other than Gitmo three years ago, the only "torture" I know of is putting terrorists into cold rooms, slaps on the back of the head, and dunking their heads under water. If this is what you consider torture, then we need to imprison every single person that has ever had a brother or a sister, cause apparently our young are masters of torture. More so than our interogators. My brother sat on my head once and farted. Would you consider that chemical or germ warfare torture?

Answer 10

Mr. Morden (above) is exactly right!

Leaders from other wars have been prosecuted, jailed, and executed for conducting torture against soldiers!!

Daniel L: Do you think that water boarding is the extent of Americas interrogation techniques????? Come on.....it's the most excessive thing they publicly admit to doing!