why is waterboarding not torture? and which party will win next presidential election?

Answer 1

Let's waterboard Bush and Cheney until they answer that question to our satisfaction.

Democrat.

Answer 2

I am a Democrat who hold socially liberal ideals and who hapens to respect the constitution, the American way of life and believe we should follow the geneva conventions as we are bound to do just that.

1) This current administration defined torture as any physical force which causes organ failure. So, breaking bones with clubs, shocking people with electrodes, forcing people to eat feces and gargle with dog vomit, oh....just use your imagination because none of this is torture. Or is it?

2) Drowning people is not a technique for interrogation it is in fact simply torturing people by droning. There is no such thing as a simulated drowning. Waterboarding is drowning someone while stopping a little shy of killing them. Think of waterboarding as partially killing someone. Howexactly is this not torturing someone.

3) Why do you think the tapes of waterboarding were destroyed. Could it be that the so called techniques were really torture by any reasonable standards including the standards to which we are bound under treaties and international agreements.

4) The American way of life is not a joke or a thing to be taken lightly. We do not torture people. We are better than this. We are responsible for projecting truth and goodness, not torture and fake motivation for war.

5) If you believe that we only tortured three people you are quite naive.

6) Bush ordered this with his administration staff being in favor of this illegal activity. Yes, he is to blame and the Democrats who remained silent need to resign as well.

7) There are other ways to get information without torture. If you are all for torture then you need to be kept far away from any power as you simply have not learned what it really means to be an American citizen. All who agree with you also should feel less than American. Shame.

Answer 3

Focusing on waterboarding is a red herring - the question is why is the land of the free and home of the brave pissing away its moral authority by acting like the barbarians we claim superiority over.

Answer 4

I aree with you, we should not use waterboarding as torture, we should just cut their heads of like they did to Dan Pearl, then it would be fair, Wright? Or mayne we could ask them questions about why they want to kill us, over Tea and Crumpets.

Answer 5

paulte. I think you should read the question again.

wow !!!