Even in civilian criminal investigations, being threatened with criminal prosecution and long-term incarceration causes severe psychological distress.
2007-12-13 14:22:21 · 15 answers · asked by Bubba 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Oh no, Now the Liberals are going to start letting the jail birds out, ssssh.
2007-12-13 14:27:43 · answer #1 · answered by Stars and Stripes 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Liberals just don't understand the conservative fascination with chasing down false leads based on the bogus information produced by torture.
America’s own intelligence experts have stated that torture actually wastes time and resources and, contrary to Rush’s lies, even John McCain has made it clear that torture "produces bad intelligence".
How bad? Ibn al Sheikh al Libi was beaten and buried alive until he “confessed” a connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda—Coilin Powell used that intelligence in his UN presentation—and it helped propel America into a war with a country that had zero terrorist connections, zero terrorists, and had not even threatened to attack the US.
There was only one problem—is wasn’t true.
How many deaths (including American troops) and destroyed lives were the result of that torture-induced lie?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/11/cia-rendition-t.html
2007-12-13 22:47:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no one ever said it should be a fun process.
But why do Cons think the testimony they receive from someone being "waterboarded" is all fact and not just made up so the guy can get out of being "tortured"
In case you weren't aware, we have actually released some prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. If they were terrorists, why did we let them go? Maybe becasue some of the "prisoners" at Gitmo were guys that were in pakistan or somewhere else and the Musharraf's of the world, told us they are bad guys.
And we know how much we can trust Musharraf, right? (OBL escaped to Pakistan, Al Quieda allowed to survive in Pakistan, etc.)
2007-12-13 22:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by truthseeker 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
At what point did Liberals decide that interrogation is and should be a fun and happy process?
When Bush decided to start torturing innocent people.
2007-12-13 22:28:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
I do not think interrogation must, by necessity, fall into one of two categories; ..."torture"... or "fun".
There's a lot between those two characterizations, and an effective, civilized and responsible approach is sure to be found there.
As always, in the Republicans world, it's a choice between one of two extremes... because that's all they ever seem to see.
2007-12-13 22:29:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Right around 1791, when The Bill Of Rights was first ratified.
2007-12-13 22:32:01 · answer #6 · answered by Think 1st 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
When the figured out that 95% of the suspects being interrogated harshly happen to be poor people.
2007-12-13 22:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
When they saw Al-Qaeda chop a head off.
2007-12-13 22:45:59 · answer #8 · answered by wider scope 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
here's a message from america to the new radical republicans:
please try your social experiments someplace else.
here we have the constitution, where it says ALL are created equal.
by the way, we HUNG japanese soldiers who waterboarded americans during WWII...
2007-12-13 22:28:54 · answer #9 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
and a slap on the wrist may even hurt the poor cowards, sniff, sniff.
2007-12-13 22:29:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋