Terrorist Sympathizers, Why Would You Rather Have America Attacked Than Have A Terrorist Waterboarded?

Question

Also, why are you concerned that a terrorist may accidentally swallow a little water? Isn't it more important to get details to stop an attack on 300 million Americans? Also, why don't you know learning to snorkel underwater while on vacation causes more water to be swallowed than being waterboarded?

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The Geneva ConventionS does not cover terrorists (illegal combatants, enemy combatants, belligerent combatants, enemy aliens, etc). Through the last 2000 years of law, fighters that fight with no loyalty to any nation have had no rights. (The Romans called those fighters the latin term "Homo Sacer").
The Geneva Conventions only covers prisoners of war.

Answer 1

Perhaps instead of waterboarding, we can take them out to see Michael Moores latest movie. Then we can take them for a vegan dinner while we wrap up the night planting a tree. Perhaps if we did that to a terrorist they would be so freakin scared of us...

Answer 2

I have never had a problem with immigration checks in the USA but I don't have anything to hide and have no concern about finger prints being taken. I look forward to the increased security where stricter checks will be made as people leave the US to ensure that the person leaving is the same person who entered. If some people feel victimised that is the fault of the people who bomb indiscriminantly but most of the real complainers have probably never been out of their home towns and just like to have a pop at America. I wish that Britain did a better job of keeping terrorists out and kept a closer eye on those who visit warzones to do charity and good works on a regular basis as these have been found to be terrorists in recent trials.

Answer 3

I'm all for introducing waterboarding as a punishment in the legal system. That way, AFTER the government has proven to a jury that someone is a terrorist, they can interrogate them. Of course, evidence given under duress is inadmissable in court (and useless anyway), but if the government is willing to spend resources chasing every rambling admission, confession, fiction and hallucination of a tortured prisoner, hey, we'll just raise your taxes to pay for it (or your children's taxes, under a Republican administration). Oh, and we'll miss the next attack because we're chasing shadows in stead of real threats.

But let's have the trials first. Right now, the US is torturing people that someone, somewhere has told someone, somewhere knows something about someone. Perhaps. That's not a nation ruled by laws. It's a nation run by fear and insecurity.

Answer 4

No.

bushbots...why would you rather see America disregard The Constitution and The Bill of Rights by stooping as low as the terrorists, which is what they want in the first place, so basically you have let the terrorists win?

Answer 5

I am not a terrorist sympathizer. I am a man who respects the rule of LAW and our US Constitution. Torture only produces false confessions. How much WaterBoarding could you tolerate before you admitted to whatever it was you thought they wanted you to admit to? An attack on 300 million Americans would be an attack on the population and require a large coordinated effort that couldn't possible avoid exposure. Not all of those being held prisoner are "terrorists." They are SUSPECTED "terrorists" or "enemy combatants," and are not made aware of the charges against them, denied legal counsel, denied a fair and speedy trial, and denied access to the "evidence" against them. The US is supposed to be BETTER than that, even if YOU and your "President" aren't.

Answer 6

Terrorist Sympathizers! they should all be deported to live in Iraq under the Iraq government.if waterboarding is what it takes to make the enemy talk and it saves lives of our military men and women then i;d do it in a heart beat.you cry babies who want to fight like a bunch of sissies like john Mc cain does.if anyone should know about what torture is all about it should be john Mc cain.he was a prisoner of war.he knows what the enemy is like when it comes to torture.they don;t care how they hurt our people.yet he;s trying to change the world when it comes to torture.and now he wants to run for president.he did;nt learn anything in that POW camp.kind of wonder if he did;nt work for the enemy just to save his own ***.you torture to get information to save lives,not for anything other then that reason.the terrorists torture our people when their captured.what about cutting the heads off the prisoners that they capture.what about putting a sack over the heads of our captured people and then taking a gun put it to your head and pull the trigger.is that ok to do.we should of tortured the hell out of the bastards who destroyed the twin towers in new York City on September 11.

Answer 7

They should be more concerned about innocents being executed in various states around the country. So yes, if this gets us info to stop further terrorist attacks that may spare thousands on innocents their lives, no problem.
Quite frankly after I got the info from them I would send them to those beautiful virgins in the sky. Praise Allah!

Answer 8

I am not a terrorist sympathizer, however the quality of information you get from torture is just not worth it. Just ask John McCain and the other soldiers that have been held as POW's.

Regarding your statement about comparing water boarding and snorkeling? All I can say is WOW! I truly hope you do not really believe that?

Answer 9

If you have to torture people to get the job done, what in the hell are our intelligence agencies even doing. Furthermore, this goes along with the suspension of habeaus corpus. Not to mention, several of these "suspected" terrorists may not be terrorists at all. We expect our country to treat us a certain way, so why wouldn't we expect them to treat anyone and everyone with the same rights?

Answer 10

Becuase liberals hate America and want us to get attacked again