2007-12-19 09:07:17 · 20 answers · asked by woody 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Answer: I would be upset if they did not!
2007-12-19 09:10:35 · answer #1 · answered by trumain 5 · 11⤊ 3⤋
I don't! To save one innocent life or one servicemen's life I say that it's morally correct to do so. To torture for the fun of it....No! I lived an incident in Viet-Nam where an RVN was interrogating a NVA who had a horrible gut wound. The RVN officer was twirling a piece of bamboo in this guys wound while asking him questions. Even though we all knew this enemy would die real soon from his wound, let alone his torture, it was wrong! I was no lover of bad-guy gooks but this guy was way overboard in torturing an mortally wounded enemy soldier who was doing what he was told. To the quick: I walked over and put a bullet in the NVA's head...a mercy killing. I also badly wanted to put a bullet in the RVN officers head. If the person who is threating to kill us comes under suspicion of withholding information detremental to saving American lives and is not wounded or in serios pain...torture him or her regarless of age! Plain and simple. For the Islamic people we are now engaged in war with I suggest stuffing them with any 100% pork products in front of all the other prisnors.Remember, a terrorist does not fall under the Geneva Convention because he is acting as a mercenary and therefore is in no way entitled to mercy. Think of it this way... what if the information this insurrgent had would decide if you lived to see tomorrow. What would you do?
2007-12-19 13:00:59 · answer #2 · answered by purpleheart3@verizon.net 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I care. We're the good guys and we don't use torture as a necessary means of interrogation.
What the issue at the moment is concerning the definition of torture. Making someone uncomfortable for a short duration of time, and not causing lifelong trauma or disability, falls short of torture.
Tying someones hands behind their back, and then suspending them from the ceiling with a rope from their wrists until their shoulder sockets are damages is torture... and we don't do that sort of thing.
Forcing someones head underwater and scaring them.... not torture.
Warm regards,
Douglas
Post Script: The only reason this is even an issue is the the Democrats are trying to use it to give the president a black eye in public opinion.
They seem to overlook that this method has been used under every president since the Kennedy Administration.
In short.. the Democrat leadership is filled with people that will sell out our national security to continue their individual power.
2007-12-19 09:17:53 · answer #3 · answered by prancinglion 5 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Because if they take it to extremes and start mistreating undeserving people, us regular Americans will have little recourse to defend ourselves if all we do is stand by, or worse, condone it. You can make a case that such a policy only plays into the hands of the terrorists / insurgents, or those in the Middle East that generally say we are the Great Satan. It's an awful practice that rarely gets good information.
2007-12-19 09:12:05 · answer #4 · answered by Pfo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
People that think we're dealing with folks that will tell us everything and not hate us anymore if we just show them how much we care and understand them.....Just tell that to Daniel Pearl. And waterboarding is not that bad, many of us that have been in the armed forces had to go through it as part of training, or as part of the hazing that is "rumored" to go on, but it never does, end of sentence, I know nothing...
2007-12-19 09:31:49 · answer #5 · answered by zebj25 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Imagin this scenario: a SWAT team busts into your house and arrests you, you get hauled off to Guantanamo Bay and some asshole half drowns you for a week straight. Problem is: they've got the wrong guy (because our "intelligence" sucks) and you don't have any info to give them. So you just keep getting drowned until they finally figure out that they've got the wrong guy. My point: laws against cruel and unusual punishment/torture were designed to protect the innocent and falsely accused. If we could be 100% certain that someone is a terrorist planning on killing others, then there would be little question as to the legality of waterboarding. Unfortunately, we can't be sure, and that means that inncocent people are going to be tortured.
2007-12-19 09:24:29 · answer #6 · answered by Wizeguy 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Thank You Mayflower! For pointing out the folly of that GOOF "sensible-man"...I agree! How could anyone be that stupid and own a computer with internet access??? Must be Moms!
2007-12-19 09:48:14 · answer #7 · answered by David N 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
United States has too many critics; especiallly ones that'll trigger people to vote the people who approve of the "cruel and unusual punishment" means out of office.
2007-12-19 09:12:31 · answer #8 · answered by ObsidianJenn 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The rule of law thingee and we are supposed to be the good guys and as long as they dont get caught....
2007-12-19 09:31:02 · answer #9 · answered by Bob D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Because they may only be SUSPECTED of wanting to kill us.
2. Because things like that are WHY they want to kill us in the first place
3. Because of the Geneva Convention. I assume you've heard of it?
2007-12-19 09:29:09 · answer #10 · answered by friend 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
your gonna get the if your kid was treated this way answer here.the truth being we see how they treat our troops.ever see a prison camp in the persian gulf? no ,they kill them after they gut them and chop off their heads before they drag them through town.but to answer your question,i dont.
2007-12-19 09:18:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋