this is really one question - Is this the American way?
my opinion - No, it isn't.
read this at wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding
2007-11-01 05:33:37 · 9 answers · asked by omnimog 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
tylertxn- since you asked- we ALREADY about the twin towers before 9/11- no torture needed- was it a crime we (W) didn't stop it?
2007-11-02 09:31:24 · update #1
sir bobby- Muke's opinion was that HE DIDN"T KNOW - typical- sounds kinda like Gonzales don't it?
2007-11-02 09:33:34 · update #2
Lars, ?cut him some slack for not knowing??????? and he's being considered for the United States attorney General AND HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT WATERBOARDING IS?
omg!!! would you seriously hire a guy that doesn't know stuff -for that job?
2007-11-02 09:35:33 · update #3
Look who appointed this AG nominee. Even McCain, who was a POW and normally backs Bush, does not back this form of interrogation.
2007-11-01 05:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In days of yore, in conventional warfare where people dropped bombs on you, shot at you, had a country at war with you--yes I'd agree. Let me ask you this--if your mother and father worked in the twin towers, and information could have been gotten from an Al Queda member that would have prevented it, would you really have a problem with it. al Queda has no honor-gives no quarter. Quite honestly if sticking a cattle prod up their butts elicts information from these animals that saves the lives of civilians around the world--I really don't care.
2007-11-01 12:39:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're right. It puts us in a nasty category. In 1947 the US prosecuted a Japanese officer for waterboarding as a war crime-guess the US thought it was torture then. This AG should not be confirmed.
2007-11-01 12:38:45 · answer #3 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Okay, It's a bad thing.
However, what would you do if 'they' had your Mother, Sister or someone you loved? Would it be okay then?
Sometimes, Good people are required to do Bad things for the good of majority.
I don't like it, the world is not he way I wished it could be. There is a lot of evil that needs to be eliminated.
2007-11-01 12:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
while I believe that yes it is torture... I am afraid we have dug too deep a hole to get out of on this issue.
Wouldn't people who have been water-boarded and detained by our government for years come out of the woodwork with lawsuits if we all of a sudden determined that yes it is indeed torture?
2007-11-01 13:09:25 · answer #5 · answered by Lily Iris 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My problem with it is, now that the Government has no opposition on this, why would they stop? Where does it end? How far is too far? Soon we will be ripping out nails and shooting blanks into people's heads and calling it "enhanced interrogation techniques"
2007-11-01 12:38:43 · answer #6 · answered by Kevy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The police have done way worse to american citizens, so I'd have to say yes to some extent.
2007-11-01 12:41:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's the American way at all...
Even though our President seems to encourage it.
If everyone in the USA has an opinion about it, why can't
Mukasey share his ?
2007-11-01 12:37:55 · answer #8 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He doesn't know what it means . . . Cut him some slack!
2007-11-01 12:36:35 · answer #9 · answered by Lars 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋