For water boarding or against?Why?

Question

im for whatever it takes to get the info.waterboarding isnt painfull.it all fear.

Answer 1

It's just scary... not painful or damaging.

Answer 2

AGAINST - for many reasons.
-One is that it is illegal in the opinion of the world.
-It is also been prosecuted both internationally and the US courts.
-It is proved over many centuries that torture only gets you information that the person thinks that you want to hear. Wrong information may get you into a war that is wrong such as the Iraq war.
-Our soldiers are also subject to torture if caught because we have set a precedence.
-We are losing the fight in the world's decency court. There are a lot of concerns that we are afraid of letting people go from Guantanamo because we have made those people so anti-US because of our treatment that they will become our enemy even if they were innocent.
-I think that we need to try it on the people that thing that it is no big thing to go through with it. Ask John McCain.

Answer 3

It depends on the situation. If I have captured a "high value target" and believe he has information that will save American lives, YOU BET I WOULD, just like if most people would if it were your family in the balance. The practice has been done on THREE people, and has yielded valuable intelligence. The CIA man that supervised the waterboarding of the AQ man said he resisted a long time, nearly 30 seconds, then said the next day that Allah spoke to him during the night and told him to cooperate so it would be easier on his comrads. You tell me if it works or not.

ADDITION: Jim P. You are wrong. Nothing is worse than the loss of life. Tell me you wouldn't do whatever you had to do to save YOUR family.

ADDITION: Why are people acting like the U.S. is opening the flood gates on torture? Has everyone forgotten that it was the terrorists/insurgents that beheaded people on video tape? Killed people, drug them through the streets and hung from bridges? Send people with explosives strapped to them into crowded places to blow themselves up? All these things took place long before the subject of waterboarding came up.

Answer 4

If the US intelligence services say it is effective and has gotten a lot of good information, and if the US DoJ deems that it (or any other interrogation procedure) does not rise to the level of torture and does not violate any of the international treaties, then I support using it against those illegal combatants (who have no legal standing) who might possess information that would save many innocent lives.

Until it is legally defined as "torture", then it isn't.

Answer 5

We subject some of our own people to this form of "torture" to give them a taste of what might be in store for them if the are ever captured by an enemy. Do you really think we torture our own service men? It is a very effective way to get information quickly. We have used it a total of 3-5 times during this war and each and every time we acquired vital information. I'm all for it.

Answer 6

I think letting the " Don't ask, don't tell" military get a hold of their A$$ is a much better idea. Therefore I am against it!

Answer 7

Against. for the last 15 centuries it's been regarded as torture. how far does this admin want to turn the clock back?
When we trade the core beliefs andn rights that this country was founded on for security then we deserve neither.

Answer 8

If your enemy think of you as sheep to be slaughtered then he will continue to kill you.
If your enemy realizes the cost of conflict with you, then he will negotiate the peace even if he will never love and respect you.
But strive never become what you despise.
The end does not always justify the means.

Answer 9

waterboarding is a form of torture. I am against all torture...for these reasons:

1. - It often does not work and gets false answers. Victims say whatever you want to hear to get the torture to stop. If you guess wrong about someting, and want to get confirmation of your guess, torture victims will say what you want to hear, and give you erroneous info.

2. It often does not work. I have been tortured, and it did not work on me. I suffered until I had an out of body experience. Then, I (my mind/spirit) sat outside my body, invisible to all, watching my body being tortured. My body then felt nothing, and only grinned at my abusers.

3. It gives others the right to torture our people. We have no grounds to complain about Al-Queda torturing U.S. service people if we also torture Al-Queda prisoners.

4. It is very counter productive...costing us allies, and friends, who wish to have no connection with torture we do.

5. It turns against us nations/groups which-while they may never be our friends-might have been neutral towards us if they did not hate us for torturing people.

Torture costs us more than it gives us. It is stupid...which is why Dumbya, and his boys, do it.

Answer 10

Against. Torture doesn't work because people will lie if the pain and psychological stress is overwhelming.

Answer 11

Against - I always keep our military people in mind, but apparently some of our leaders don't give a DAMN about tilting the playing field -- apparently then think we can tilt it, but the enemy can't.

Perhaps that's the result of a Commander-in-Chief who never actually saw battle, and who seems to have no understanding of what the soldier faces when captured.