Now that waterboarding is American policy, isn't everything else a go now too?

Question

Why not all other forms of torture, too?
Why not assassinations?
Why not taking hostages?
Why not summary executions?
We already lock people away in secret prisons without due process. Why not simply abandon all artificial notions of so called morality and just go for it?

Why put any limits on ourselves whatsoever if George Bush thinks, in his wisdom, that something might somehow help in prosecuting the war on terror?

Why let an insignificant thing like "morality" concern us? Where do we draw the line or should we even bother to draw a new one?

Incorrect Johnny Conservati.

Through the fifth and fourteenth amendment, due process applies to all persons, not just citizens.

Answer 1

I believe they should instead send my wife to nag them to death. This does not leave any marks either.

Answer 2

#1) It isn't policy... policy means it is done regular like. It is an exception to the rule.

but to your nonsense

Why not all other forms of torture, too? It is questionable if Waterboarding fits a legal definition or torture. BUT Very few torture techniques are useful for interrogation. so no
Why not assassinations? I favor Assassinations. A lot cheaper then spending a Trillion bucks on a war.
Why not taking hostages? Because that is against International and US law.
Why not summary executions? Perfectly allowable under the Geneva convention for Unlawful combatants. And I would prefer it to what we are doing now. Holding people for years who have marginal intelligence. Releasing them and then recapturing them on the same battlefield.

Answer 3

You're the poster child for keeping things secret. Everybody wants sausage, but some can't handle knowing anything how it's made. It makes them crazy, as you illustrate.

Answer 4

"We already lock people away in secret prisons without due process". Only American citizens are protected by due process of law.

Answer 5

We've been doing those things for years.

The older I get, the more I'm convinced that if I really knew all of the evil stuff that is being perpetrated by our government, I'd go insane.

Answer 6

PEOPLE LIKE YOU NEED TO BE DEPORTED TO ANOTHER COUNTRY WHERE YOU CAN LIVE BY YOUR WAY OF THINKING.WATERBOARDING IS OK WITH ME.IF IT;S GOING TO SAVE LIVES OF OUR AMERICAN MILITARY SOLDIERS GO FOR IT.EVER THING WHAT THE ENEMY DOES TO OUR SOLDIERS WHEN THEY CAPTURE THEM.GO BACK IN YOUR CLOSET AND PLAY WITH YOUR TOYS.AMERICA GO FOR THE TORTURE AND MAKE THEM TALK.BECAUSE TORTURE ALSO WILL SAVE A LOT OF THEIR LIVES AS WELL.

Answer 7

Water boarding leaves no physical injuries, this is the justification for this process, agree or not. Leave it to a liberal to take every thing to the extreme. Why don't you ever worry about the treatment of our captured soldiers ?

Answer 8

It is not American policy. Address your own issues by relocating.

Answer 9

They already do all of those things you have mentioned.

Answer 10

I'm still waiting for them to tie rocks to their wrists and ankles, and throw them into a river. If God saves them, they are innocent, and if they sink they are guilty.

Seems to be the next illogical step down this slippery slope.

But here is what I see happening. Next time some country catches one of our troops during a conflict and straps them to electric box springs, and our government cries that it is torture, the other country will just say "yeah that is exactly what the US said about water boarding until we decided to do it."