highwaystar101 said:
I'm sorry Tyranical, but are you really saying that waterboarding is not a form torture??? I mean come on, you can't call it interogation. There are dozens of ways to interogate someone without resorting to sick and cruel methods. I'm sorry but it is torture and nothing else. I know the people in Guantanamo bay are evil people, but being evil back brings you down to their level. Look just watch the video and tell me if this person isn't being tortured and that the guy at the end is wrong.
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It's a very humane method used to extract information without causing undue pain or any form or permanent injury. It's merely "unpleasant".
Compared to the punishments commonly legal in Islamic countries, the US must look like a Saint in comparison. Infact not only did the prisoner have BOTH hands and feet, he also appears to have all 10 fingers and toes. I see no electrical cables hooked up to his testicles, nor is he beaten bloody. I see no executoiner readying a sword to cut off his head, nor a torturer wiedling a whip, not an angry crowd of 9/11 victim survivors hurling stones at him.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
