2007-11-07 10:38:46 · 14 answers · asked by Johnny D 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I read somewhere that water boarding had only been used three times in the past five years, I don't know if that is true or not but it said nothing about people dieing from it and I guess attacks have been prevented so it works.
Do I approve of it, yeah it doesn't seem like torture I'm sure people don't like it but if you only go with what people like then even capturing them is torture.
So if it comes down to it and water boarding is considered torture then I will have to insist all inmates in US prisons be released immediatly due to the fact that being put in a place that is violent and has high risk for rape is cruel and unusual punishment
2007-11-07 10:48:04 · answer #1 · answered by Tip 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why even ask? George Bush himself said, "The United States doesn't torture." Would George lie?
There's no way that drowning a person isn't torture. You can check this out. Grab some shmuck off the street at random. Subject him to 'water boarding'. Tell him the 'enhanced interrogation' will stop if he signs a letter admitting to the murder of Jimmy Hoffa. I suspect he'll agree that he was the trigger man. The entire argument is bogus. Torture is against the law and anyone involve from top to bottom that has indulged in it needs to answer to charges in a court...no kiddin'!
2007-11-07 10:58:57 · answer #2 · answered by Noah H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well... if anyone knew those numbers and actually said them... they could probably be arrested...
this seems to be top secret information you're asking about... so who knows...
I would suspect though for water boarding to have any real effect that it would need to come close to drowning a person... so there would have to be some risk involved... if you were actually doing it to any real degree...
and of course military training wouldn't be as severe as an actual interrogation... so I would think comparing the two would be pretty silly...
2007-11-07 11:01:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I understand it, waterboarding carries no actual risk of death for the victim. Whether any lives at all have been saved by information so obtained is debateable. It's likely that any such information is probably still too sensitive to release.
2007-11-07 10:45:23 · answer #4 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Number of lives saved - irrelevant, probably few.
Number of deaths caused - irrelevant, probably zero.
The United States is now on record as a barbarian country which approves torture.
It's true the Geneva Convention does not cover spies or terrorists. What of it? We can bicker about specifics all we want, but when they start mailing pieces of POWs back to us, along with the taped screams, what then? And who set the precedent?
I'm horrified we would do this, and baffled by our stupidity. Enemy sadists and terrorists often do this filth anyway, but why give them extra justification to commit atrocities? "The US does it, so can we!"
And all just to satisfy our Homeland sadists. God, I hate them.
2007-11-07 11:15:04 · answer #5 · answered by KALEL 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Like everyone else on this board, I dont know how much info has been gained nor do I know how many times it has been done if at all but I feel safe i saying that at the hands of US personnel, no one has died from it.
How many people have had their head slowly hacked off by dull knives?
2007-11-07 10:49:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately, we'll never know the hard numbers to these questions. I don't think the military and covert alphabet organizations give that information out.
2007-11-07 10:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Counting the number of military in training (thousands) zero. But, if it does become listed from an interrogation technique to torture then we will have to quit using it on enemies of this country. I hope the military can still use it, it is safe and a very good tool for the training that it is designed for.
2007-11-07 10:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by rance42 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Torture is unconstitutional and against the Geneva convention. Waterboarding is form of torture. It doesn't matter whether or not information is given or if people die. It's still illegal. End of argument.
Seriously, if you're in favor of torture as a national policy on war prisoners, don't expect to live in a free country for too long.
2007-11-07 10:42:46 · answer #9 · answered by alaisin13 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
A friend of mine got a helmet for snowboarding. I thought it was a waste of money after reading some articles about whether they prevent head injuries.
2007-11-07 10:42:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋