Why is the U.S. approving torture techniques, such as waterboarding?

Question

when it's been proven torture does not get accurate information?

Is it because Bush is happy with any info, even if it's inaccurate?

Answer 1

I've been asking about this too.
What I have come to realize from the answers I've gotten is that they feel the "ends justify the means."

Personally, I think we should be the ones setting a positive example and not lowering ourselves to acts that terrorists do.

Answer 2

You question is carefully backwards. Why are you asking the democrats that query mutually as this is the previous republican administration that denied trials to suspected terrorists? The Dem's have been insisting that there be trials and the techniques-blowing court docket docket has an same opinion. a military court docket docket the area the defendant isn't in a position to be sure the info against them isn't considered one of those trial the Germans and eastern had. they have been commonplace to mount greater desirable appropriate than a token protection. BTW, why is it that different on the nicely appropriate insist that water boarding isn't torture mutually as many of the trials of eastern pows you reference in touch expenses of water boarding?

Answer 3

Bush rules like a dictator. When Generals didn't agree with his invasion of Iraq or the "Surge" they were replaced.

New evidence suggests the Bush administration forced out a Senior Justice Department official who declared waterboarding a form of torture after experiencing it first-hand. According to ABC News, former acting assistant attorney general Dan Levin was so concerned about the White House’s approval of waterboarding that he went to a military base to undergo it himself in 2004. Levin was tasked with reworking the administration’s legal position on torture at the time. He concluded that waterboarding is likely illegal torture unless performed in a limited way under close supervision. The findings were to be included in a memo laying out the administration’s new stance on torture. But Levin never got to complete his report as he was forced out of his job.

For years the U.S. supported and trained (School of the Americas at Fort Bening, Georgia) foreign military leaders how to torture. 9/11 has been used as a pretext for the U.S. to use torture in Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries under "extraordinary rendition" of "enemy combatants" including Romania, Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

Answer 4

I suspect Mr. Bush has the tortures videotaped and sent to him, so he can include them in his personal collection along with the taped hangings of Iraq's former leaders, and of course, the executions he presided over as Governor of Texas. Then he and his dad can watch them in their private screening room and share a laugh...

Answer 5

In the world we live in, we now have to "out evil" those 'evil' terrorists.

So the administration stoops down to the same level as those people we are trying to kill.

Sadly, this is going to end America as we know it--and replace it with something even more abhorrent.

But those people whom support this fascist government will often complain that liberals aren't in league with them and always whining and complaining about their stance against fighting terrorism with terrorism.

Answer 6

I don't approve of any technique that this country considers as legally "torture". Should waterboarding become listed in that way then it should and will be suspended. That being said acceptable pranks that our children play on each other and those used in Colleges for initiation purposes are far more susceptible to injury or mental anguish.

Answer 7

Name one time when anything the liberals have produced ever worked in getting info out of these terrorists, just one thing is all I ask. Talking doesn't work when the terrorists don't speak the language of peace.

Answer 8

If your loved one was about to die would you beat the information out of their captors?

Answer 9

Yup.....another concerned lib. Concerned about those poor terrorists and how well they're treated.

Answer 10

What do you propose instead, harsh language?