Comments on: Waterboarding: Interrogation Or Torture?

Technique Dates Back To Spanish Inquisition And Has Been Used By World's Cruelest Regimes

[cigalechanta]

Let''s have Bush, Cheney and the rest who think lightly of water boarding, have a BIG taste of it, and while we are at it how about their able young shipped off to Iraq.

[cigalechanta]

I say lets have Bush, Cheney and te rest who think it''s not torture try waterboarding on them.
While we are at it. lets have their young ones go to Iraq.

[logicanada]

zootallures2-The Titanic sunk because it''s captain was over eager to impress. When the man at the wheel says to go full steam ahead in a sea full of icebergsand when his misjudgements cause innocent people to die, you know he''s not thinking straight. Sounds just like the neocon machine to me.

[logicanada]

capt777737. . .go back to your trailer, turn on FOX, open a Bud, load your rifle and clean it.

[siete-pesos]

mc cain is no hero...

mc cain never faced an enemy combatant in his career.

mc cain dropped bombs on women and children in vietnam

while flying 30,000 ft. in the air.

mc cain...just another flim flam republican creep.

[prinzowhales]

mark19562-- One of the objections to torture is that it is "VERY unpleasant"...in fact, that just about sums up my objections to torture. The link below goes to a blog that notes that in 1948 a US tribunal thought it was torture as well.

I don''t know how many video games you have to play to come to the conclusion that people picked up in random sweeps, innocent sheep herders turned in for enormous sums of money for having alleged terrorist links, and others are not "human" and then justify their torture by some maniacal calculation that torturing them is saving lives...Perhaps you can show us a case where this has saved some lives?

I don''t know if the below link will help...the Article is from "No Right Turn" of October 8, 2007...

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2007/10/acting-like-nazis.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=open&toggle=MONTHLY-1122811200000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1191150000000

[zootallures2]

Water boarding is not torture, much like the pulling of fingernails is simply a means of low maintainance nail care.

Posted by logicanada at 05:24 PM : Nov 02, 2007

And just because the deck was higher up, it didn''t help the Titanic for very long.

[logicanada]

Water boarding is not torture, much like the pulling of fingernails is simply a means of low maintainance nail care.

[ixoye_02]

What idiot would believe that torturing someone for information would necessarily result in reliable information? This administration seems desperate to justify torture because it is saving American lives. Why not save American lives by providing adequate Homeland security, healthcare, and clean water and food? Those who believe that we can justify anything if it saves American lives need to reexamine just what saving American lives mean. And when we can''t draw the line against immoral and unlawful activity, then we are compromising our principles. Bush is playing a dangerous game of playing semantics on what should be a clear-cut position. How can we claim the moral high ground if we are splitting hairs about waterboarding? Bush is more interested in technicalities than principle. God help our troops should they be captured and "interrogated" like we have done with the suspected terrorists. What''s more, how do we explain what happened to those whose rendition to foreign countries for "interrogation"? We found out that these people were tortured at the hands of foreigners under US direction.

[mark19562-2009]

As to why Bush hasn''t disclosed specifics of intel that has come about as a result, that is so stupid as to not even deserve a response! Almost as the for people lying through it (torture). I have to say a few words on this though. Maybe occasionally one will lie. Then go back and try some different "techniques" which make water boarding seem like patty-cake and they''ll tell the truth!

You un-American *** live in the greatest country on earth--no, it''s not pefect--and you decry the people and institutions that have made it great and make it great today, and give you the freedom that you enjoy. You are blood-sucking leaches--parasites that will eventually kill their host if given the chance, but you''re too stupid to know it!

Also, I agree that MOST of you love shedding innocent blood when it comes to abortion, but when it comes to protecting ourselves against our sworn enemies, you cower like little whipped puppies! You make me sick!