2007-11-19 07:55:04 · 9 answers · asked by You 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
That's part of training in the military. It's not torture.
2007-11-19 07:59:25 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I always wonder what Alberto Gonzales wouild confess to if waterboarded...
Yes, some soldiers are exposed to the technique in training, but they are not subjected to it constantly for days at a time, while being kept cold, hungry, naked; while someone is constantly screaming questions at you in a foreign language, so loud that you cannot hear the Sunni interpreter over the cruel Yank or the gurgling...
When you refuse to give the answer they want, they beat you.
Sooner or later, you figure out the only way to survive is to make up info.
This why we don't use this technique to interrogate crime suspects in the US and it is also why you never read stats on the unreliable info given by those in Iraq who are waterboarded.
2007-11-19 16:02:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Are you willing to die at the hands of a terrorist who withheld information that could have been used to prevent your death but wasn't shared because the terrorists didn't see fit to cooperate and the government wasn't able to use water boarding or any other means of aggressive interrogation?
It's horrible- reality is chilling but if you think for a minute that they (they being the same kind of freaks that bomb their neighbors and themselves daily) and us have anything in common or that they care whether we choose to treat people humanly- you had better think again.
They don't care how nice we are- they want to kill us-
They took pleasure in killing us in the States and in sawing off the heads of Americans in their homelands.
Do they seem like reasonable people to you?
2007-11-19 16:19:00 · answer #3 · answered by tnfarmgirl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Let's say you know some guy has information that will save lives, but he isn't talking.
Would you refuse to waterboard him and let countless innocents die? What would you say to the son / daughter / father / mother of one of the victims? "We could have saved your family member but that would have meant we had to pour water over a murderer's face to make him think he is drowning, and that's wrong."
Nice.
2007-11-19 16:03:57 · answer #4 · answered by zeroang3l 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Having to listen to people like you that have no clue about the real world is torture to me.
2007-11-19 16:11:42 · answer #5 · answered by Flyflinger 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No...have you ever seen it done?...it is torture...it is simulated drowning...people who have had it done have no doubt that it is torture.....a rag is stuck in your mouth...water is poured onto the rag and into your lungs.....as you are choking and on the verge of death, the rag is pulled out of your mouth, allowing you to cough out the water, narrowly avoiding death...how this could not be considered torture is beyond me
2007-11-19 16:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Most of our troops endure waterboarding as part of their training to simulate drowning without risking their lives.
2007-11-19 15:59:59 · answer #7 · answered by Professor Farnsworth 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No, but I would be willing to water-board you if ever the need arises.
2007-11-19 16:14:01 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sure! but only if Bush does it to me. I love him.
2007-11-19 16:00:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋