Why are some people on the USA for our interrogation tactics? If I had to choose one country in the world to be 'tortured' by it would be the USA. You get mutilated, burned, KILLED, etc in other countries. Our tactics hardly seem like "torture".
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We know only what the government is prepared to admit to.
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That`s because you are American (or I am assuming). If you were of a muslim or middle eastern persuasion you may wish to be "tortured" by any country but the United States.
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You do not get mutilated, burned, or killed, in New Zealand.
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I didn't mean EVERY country did those things. NZ is a great place.
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The U.S. has a little ol' document called The Constitution: Torture has always been proscribed by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments." This Amendment is directly applicable to actions of the Federal Government and, through the Fourteenth Amendment, to those of the constituent states.... While the constitutional and statutory law of the individual states in some cases offers more extensive or more specific protections, the protections of the right to life and liberty, personal freedom and physical integrity found in the Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the United States Constitution provide a nationwide standard of treatment beneath which no governmental entity may fall. The constitutional nature of this protection means that it applies to the actions of officials throughout the United States at all levels of government; all individuals enjoy protection under the Constitution, regardless of nationality or citizenship.
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Since when is water-boarding,or simulated drowning hardly torture!!!!These are things we just hear about.It could be much worse and these things are hidden under the guise of national security.Psychological torture is just as terrifying as any other form.
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If i were a prisoner, i want to be tortured by having the enlisted women show me their boobs. Wow ! what pain !
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Our "torture" would be laughable compared to most torture in history. My guidelines when I was in the military were, "If there's no blood and there are no broken bones, it's not torture."
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That is you, I'd rather not be tortured anywhere, but if I had to choose a country, it wouldn't be the USA... they do use torture, and to deny it, in my opinion, is to defend such action. People "are on" the USA for their "interrogation tactics" because they claim to be rightous and take the higher ground on things when they do it themselves, they pretend they don't do it and "get on" other countries for torturing people while they are doing it themselves. Torture is not necessarily physical, either, Sleep deprivation, and sensory deprivation are horrific. Guantanamo bay I believe are responsible for countless acts that have not been fully explored. In Iraq and probably Afganistan there is evidence that soldiers did torture inprisoned citizens etc. Other countries do torture, often in a more physical way, perhaps, but that does not make US "interrogation tactics" any less disgusting, and at least other places don't have a high horse to climb on... I hope the US get thrown.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding
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It is a quite easy principle: The winner makes the rules. Apart from all that some people really do enjoy giving torture to others and it can be for some people a thrilling game with a lot of fun giving torture as we know from some series of photos we could enjoy from the Iraq. Miss Lynndie England and many of her mates obviously had a lot of fun.
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Some people regard anything more severe than lunch at Dennys' is a good reason to bash the USA.
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Call me sensitive, but I don't want to be grouped with people like the Nazis or the Inquisitors or Al-Qaeda. We are better than that. This is an issue similar to the arguments about our form of government. Some feel we are too slow with laws and so forth because we have to go through 3 branches of the government. But the fact is that we bother because we want to do the right thing. Sure, taking someone's fingernails off might get us an answer, but I don't want us to be the kind of people that do that, pure and simple.
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And a lot of countries don't torture at all. Are you proud to be the least bad of the Bad Guys? I would have thought you want to be one of the Good Guys. Is a serial killer who only killed five people good because there are others who killed fifty? Torture is always bad, and being "just a little bit bad" is no excuse.
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I'd prefer to not be tortured at all. But then, who does choose to be tortured? I've a suggestion- go through those "ehanced interrogation techniques", and then decide whether or not you consider such to be torture.
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I don't like torture nor do I agree with it but, I realize it is necessary in war. It would be really nice if the captured enemy would sing a tune of where and what our enemies have in mind but, they don't. Just about all captured combatants are tortured in one form or another, including our own(USA).
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That's because we hold to a higher standard but we have our ways of getting info.Water bourding is one of them,, yes it is not a good time but it delivers good info without permanently injuring the perpetrator.
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I come from a time in our history when the US was proud of the fact that we NEVER tortured ANYBODY for any reason. It was what made us different and me proud to be an American. We were better than that. Now imagine my shock when I see my countrymen DEFENDING torture. This principle, which made us special in history, has been replaced with a race to the bottom. To me, torture is utterly and completely un-American and if you support it, you've lost one of the great ideals this country has.
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apparently you have never heard of psychological torture.
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I think this kind of interrogation seems to be typical American like Hamburger an Coke. Americans love these interrogations and think that this is the best way to get a better reputation in the world. I just think that the rest of the world has to accept such a sophisticated decision.
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What you say is like considering those rapists who rape less savagely, less guilty than others!
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