Your thoughts please.
2007-11-01 05:08:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Read the law here:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002340----000-.html
2007-11-01 05:23:48 · update #1
Any actions against a prisoner taken that are meant to inflict pain are torture. It's a simple matter. It's just that conservatives want to inflict pain on any prisoner, whether or not they are guilty. They would call it torture if it was being done to our soldiers.
2007-11-01 05:14:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
Anything carried to an extreme could be considered torture. But where that line is is up to each of us.
For example, the old chinese water torture. You lay someone down and drip water on their forehead. You can do it for hours and it wouldn't be 'torture'. In fact it's completely painless. But eventually, it'll get to the point where it'll literally drive a person crazy. At some point, in between, it becomes torture. Waterboarding is this way, if a bit more 'violent' and aggressive. A little? No. A lot? Yeah. But waterboarding in and of itself is not torture.
2007-11-01 05:22:32 · answer #2 · answered by The emperor has no clothes 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. Waterboarding is not torture.
Torture is defined as inflicting pain on someone.
This is a nonpainful process with no risk of death or mutilation.
But it's very effective.
Some will say that people who are being interogated will just lie to you. While this may be the case in some instances, these people fail to realize a few important aspects of interogaion.
1. The people who are doing the interogating are trained to read body language and identify lying.
2. We do not go off of what one captured terrorist says; we combine the intelligance gathered from multiple suspects and other intelligence agents/agencies around the world
3. The chance of multiple captured terrorists telling the same lie is very slim to none. And the thought that those lies would confirm intelligence we already have is even less likely.
4. Our methods of gathering intelligence is a hell of a lot better than the methods some of our Middle Eastern Allies use. They make water boarding look like a day at the spa.
5. It sure beats what the enemy does to us.
2007-11-01 05:46:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
I define torture as any procedure that inflicts injury or pain. Water boarding inflicts fear. Specically fear of drowning. I've never gone through this so I don't know if there is pain involved but fear is a perfectly valid interrogation tool. Waterboarding is a borderline method though. When you are making people feel like they are drowning, the momentary asphixiation, could certainly be constued by some to be painful. Though the main effect of the procedure is purely psychlogical. I would say that it is definitely not nice, but does not pass into the realm of torture as it causes no pain or injury. Still, we should never have our military personel water boarding people. It is bad for public relations. That is what private contractors who work for dummy corporations indirectly funded by the CIA are for.
2007-11-01 11:25:56 · answer #4 · answered by James L 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, the experts say torture is not productive. Remember, it is our troops who will suffer the same methods at the hands of their captors, and maybe worse. We should never have given the opposition this option.
2007-11-01 05:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's considered torture under the Geneva Convention
2007-11-01 05:18:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Yes!
And to prove that point I am offering anyone who says that it isn't torture a chance to prove me wrong by letting me try it out on them!
I bet you would change your mind - real quick!
Any takers?
Thought not!
2007-11-01 05:34:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well it sure ain't fun!
Obviously it's torture, the question is whether it is a tolerable level of torture or not. If it wasn't torture, if it wasn't unpleasant, it would have no use whatsoever.
Those who decide should go through it 1st!!!! I would, any responsible decider would.
2007-11-01 05:28:32 · answer #8 · answered by anonacoup 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
NO ....ITS A TOOL
IF YOU CAPTURED A TERRORIST WHO CLAIMED HE HAD PLANTED A DEVICE TO KILL LARGE QUANTIES OF PEOPLE IN A SINGLE USE AND YOU HAD ONLY 24 HOURS TO DISARM IT......WHAT OTHER OPTION DO YOU HAVE TO SAVE LIVES ......HOW FAR IS TO FAR.....THERE IS NO ANSWER.....YOU DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO ...NO MATTER HOW HARSH OR BAD....YOU SAVE LIVES AT ALL COST.....USE ALL YOUR TOOLS AND TRICKS AND BREAK THIS PERSON , TO GIVE UP HIS SECRETS.....THE NEEDS OF THE MANY OUT WEIGHT THE ONE
2007-11-01 11:41:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If someone doesn't consider water boarding torture strap them down and pour water over them for a couple of hours and, see what they say.
2007-11-01 05:14:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋