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Originally posted by highlander
Anyway, what does everyone think about Gonzales more-or-less authorizing torture of terrorists, citing it is not mentioned in the Geneva Convention?
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forgive me for not reading that book you posted first
but im gonna take a stab in the dark at what is going on... we're tourturing terrorists to try and get info out of them, then saying its ok cause its not in the geneva convention?
well... if thats the case, i have to strongly disagree with it. we are the ultimate world hypocrate, we deemed sadam(im not trying to tie iraq into this, just making a point) an evil person worthy of overthrowing via military force(this wasnt the only reason, but after the WMD thing fell through there was the "well he is a shithead to his people so its still ok" argument) for tourtuing his own people, and for what reason? to get info out of them. they COULD have been trying to overthrow him, and he may have known that they couldnt, but wanted to nip it in the bud if possible. now im not trying to say that he is right or wrong, but it happened. it looked bad to the rest of the world but in his mind, in his place, it was an acceptable way to conduct interrogations.
now the united states, the land of liberty and justice, who had the god given right to play world police is turning around and doing the exact same thing? why? because some of the people living or passing through our country might be terrorists? tourture is a fast and not always accurate way to get a confession out of someone. you strap me to a spring board and pump 10,000 volts through me i'll tell you who shot kennedy. its not going to be right, but if you think i know, and i tell you what you wana hear to get you to stop shocking the shit out of me, im more or less happier than i was 5 mins ago, and you think you're interrogation went off great and a huge step forward in stoping terrorists or what have you. i really dont like this cause if just ONE person is really innocent and has to be put through that hell because our semi-accurate intellegence points the finger, hell will break loose over the world. if we do this, we're no better than any 3rd world dictator. maybe its my pride getting in the way, but i'd rather be known for living what we speak and giving every person an equal opportunity to plea their case or whatnot, instead of pushing said ideas on one country then turning around and doing the exact opposite cause its for OUR greater good... no wonder everyone hates us.