I CANNOT believe we here in AMERICA are even debating if Torture is the right thing to do...what??

Question

First: TORTUE does NOT work, My God pick up a study and READ it!

What is happening to this country where we are like some 6th world nation and debating on the USE OF HUMAN TORTURE!

My God.........is this really AMERICA? The America I know and love, the Shinning City on a hill.

Are we NO better than Brutal Dictators? I've heard some say if this saves American lives then I'm for it........HUMAN TORTURE does NOT WORK...people will say anything under those conditions.

IF we continue this we are NO BETTER than them...my God people wake up!

If we allow this to happen and DON'T stand up....they will not ONLY torture terrorist...they will like everything else EXPAND it's USE. Well now we have to torture drug users...then have have to Torture some that are behind on their property tax...IF you think that's crazy you might want to read about Nazi Germany and it steps.

I'm a conservative Ronald Reagan Republican and I'm outraged by this BS!!

What say you??

Answer 1

OMG...FINALLY....SOMEONE ON HERE WITH A BRAIN. I'm so glad this is being said. I know I'm gonna get a lot of thumbs down clicks for the brain comment, but whatever. It had to be said. I, too, cannot even comprehend how someone can be for human torture. The fact that we do this practically proves that we never went into Iraq for "humanitarian" reasons. We are being just as barbaric as the people we are complaining about! I feel like in 8 short years, our government has totally ruined our credibility in the area of foreign affairs and we have totally lost the amazing ideals of democracy on which our forefathers built this nation. Question asker: You give me hope for republicans and hope that maybe our country will one day not be so divided by politcal ideology.

***for scredawg....we use torture so that someone will take the fall and then our gov't can say "Justice! We found our man! See? No one can beat America!"

***and to Pearl G - what happens when your hand is cut off and then you are found innocent? hmmm?

***For Witwats: Waterboarding was used during the Spanish Inquisition and by Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the World War II Japanese military, according to advocacy group Human Rights Watch. Waterboarding was used in the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now facing trial before a military tribunal for planning al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington according to CNN.
"waterboarding is just the type of torture then Lt. Commander John McCain had to endure at the hands of the North Vietnamese." according to the small Wars Journal.
"If you support the use of waterboarding on enemy captives, you support the use of that torture on any future American captives. The Washington Post reported in 2006 that it was mainly America’s enemies that used it as a principal interrogation method. After World War 2, Japanese waterboard team members were tried for war crimes. In Vietnam, service members were placed under investigation when a photo of a field-expedient waterboarding became publicly known."

Answer 2

I am totally and completely outraged that this even is up for debate! You are SO correct! If someone is being tortured they will say anything to make the torture stop! And, what does it say about our society? A bunch of barbarians. How can we walk around calling ourselves civilized and do this? How can we criticize other countries for behavior such as this and then do it ourselves? How is we are allowed to behave in such an inhumane way and then still expect no one else to do it and no one to do it to us! Do unto others, bible thumpers! You can not say a behavior is wrong and then do it yourself, or support others doing it! It is wrong, it is inhumane, it is hypocritical, and to those of you that think you only support our troops by not questioning Shrub-it sets up our troops for the same kind of treatment. And guess what-it is idiotic! I just do not know how we can hold our heads up and proudly call ourselves Americans, call ourselves a compassionate and civilized nation, and still condone and allow this kind of thing to happen.

Answer 3

The only reason we can even debate it though is because we are here in America!
Like you I feel as if reality is rather surreal to when I grew up!
All started on 911!
Which is why I also feel the only way for America to get back to the light of the world status is when we get a REAL 911 commission report that is impartial and transparent!
It is also the only way we can ever re-gain the respect and creditibilty we once had!

Answer 4

Torture does work pick up a real study for yourself. its worked for 5000 years. long before Christ was a glint in Gods eye. Here's the nutshell; i would rather torture 1000 prisoners of war then let one American die.

Answer 5

Go to Micheal Savages wegsite and look at the films the poor terrorist made when they killed all those different people on by one. Torture, pour a can of coke down their noses, that's torture. take care.

Answer 6

I think you are so full of bull you can taste it. I love the claim of a poster being a history buff then acting like the US was a bunch of pansy saints until Bush the cowboy came along. Newsflash, we have employed limited "torture" since day one and it isnt going to change. It is NOT widespread and most of what the sensationalist need you to believe is widespread torture isnt even happening. Many of you just need a reason to hate your country.
You do realize that a mere 60 yrs ago we used flame throwers all the time and burning to death doesnt seem to peaceful to me. Did that make us worse than the Japanese who were slaughtering civilians and raping women enmass??? Insanity I say.

Answer 7

I wake up every day now, and realize that I don't recognize this country anymore. As a huge history buff, I cannot even pinpoint when Americans stopped caring about what happens in their own country. Consumerism is an easy scapegoat, but the US was built on revolutionary ideology.. by people that were willing to risk everything they had to do the right thing. And then suddenly, it stopped. Who are we?

Answer 8

Torture will be used regardless of the law, but to legalize torture is not humane in my book.

Answer 9

Under the republicans America has sunk into the deepest pits of Hell, and it will take, as it always does, a good old fashioned Democrat to pull us out, and bring dignity and honesty back to the White House.

Anybody that condones torture, whether Democrat or republican is serving the Devil and everybody knows that waterboarding is torture.

It's not just splashing the face with water as republicans want us to think.

With waterboarding they drown a person, and then revive them but many times those who are being waterboarded do not revive.

They are murdered instead.

Don't worry though, those who believe in waterboarding and other forms of torture will have to face their maker one day, and Hell will be eternal!

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Answer 10

We are a moral and great country we are the good guys!
Torture is not moral, not great and not what good guys do!