Should we be concerned about these interrogation Techniques?

Question

Water boarding: prisoner bound to a board with feet raised, and cellophane wrapped round his head. Water is poured onto his face and is said to produce a fear of drowning

Cold cell: prisoner made to stand naked in a cold, though not freezing, cell and doused with water

Standing: Prisoners stand for 40 hours and more, shackled to the floor

Belly slap: a hard slap to the stomach with an open hand. This is designed to be painful but not to cause injury.

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Why do we deny we do these 'mild' tortures? after all they are Islamo-fascists, right?
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Answer 1

No because that will only happen to "bad people", they do much worse. We're no Islamofascists so we have nothing to worry about. Besides it's not fascism if we do it

Serious answer, this is disgusting and in any decent world people would be outraged and demand an end to this barberry. Torture violates US and International law, this is torture

Answer 2

The problem I have with these techniques are two-fold. First, if any of those subjected to torture are NOT 'terrorists', then 'terrorism' ceases to be a valid justification for torture.
-- Prisoner Spent 4 Years at Gitmo Despite Exoneration
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/5/headlines

Second, my understanding of 'moral high ground' is that one uses their own ethics, not the actions of others, to define morality. If torture is justified by pointing out that "others do worse" or "the rules are different" for terrorists... doesn't the condoning of torture on those grounds mean that we give up our own code of ethics and allow our morality to be conditioned by the 'most reviled' (terrorists) who we say have NO morality? There's no honor in that... not to mention that we then have NO moral high ground from which to condemn the water-boarding of monks in Myanmar (Burma).
-- On torture, 2 messages and a high political cost
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/30/america/30torture.php

Answer 3

You know, we spend hundred of millions of dollars each year trying to persuade people to buy this, look like that, and do the other in new, creative, and innovative ways.

Why can't we take these brilliant minds and use them toward information gathering. We're using 50 year old KGB techniques that everyone knows and are not very effective for intelligence gathering.

Why don't we think outside the box here? If we have the best talent in America why must we borrow from the KGB?

Answer 4

They may be necessary to use on the American people when our President Bush is forced to reject regime change here in America. We had to torture Padilla even though he was a nobody because he MIGHT have been a somebody! Don't forget we should drop bombs on their families houses and blow their heads and limbs off!

Answer 5

Should we?
Luke 9.60
When the blunders and slip-ups with human errors was created back in the past.
Luke 9.55-56
Which should have been corrected by now in line with the Geneva convention for the good of mankind in the creation of peace on earth goodwill to men for the good of mankind.
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
What do you think?

Answer 6

I don't understand all the worry about waterboarding

How many combat troops have enough water on them to pull this off.

When I was in the Marine Corp we just shot holes in prisoners legs untill they started talking. It only takes a couple minutes and there is no need for water.

Answer 7

I think that most rational folks are indeed VERY concerned about such activities...

It blemishes what the US supposedly represents, especially when applied to "suspects", who have little recourse to prove innocence.

Answer 8

because we're only giving more reason for more people to hate us.half of the world already hate us because we're the very definition of hyprocrits,we deny other countries nuclear weapons,while we point ours at them,we say they can't have them because they're a dangerous country when our country has been the only one in history to drop a nuclear bomb,excuse me 2 bombs,not even on military stagetic points but on civilian poulation,nogasaki,hirosoma.also we convicted japanese as war criminals for waterboarding u.s. troops and through them in prison now we're doing what we imprisoned them for,like i said we're the very definition of hypocrit

Answer 9

We should act humane, higher than other countries. Our road should be the high road.

Answer 10

holy cow, perhaps we should change our techniques to the ones our enemies use? Or maybe if we ask nicely and promise milk and cookies they will give up intel.