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Topic: Waterboarding
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| UGoGirl | Posted – 11/6/2007 9:07:08 AM | show profile I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds it disturbing that 40% of Americans think it's OK to use torture to get information from suspected terrorists. Do we have any decency? Where's our humanity? *** CNN A majority of Americans consider waterboarding a form of torture, but some of those say it's OK for the U.S. government to use the technique, according to a poll released Tuesday. Asked whether they think waterboarding is a form of torture, more than two-thirds of respondents, or 69 percent, said yes; 29 percent said no. Asked whether they think the U.S. government should be allowed to use the procedure to try to get information from suspected terrorists, 58 percent said no; 40 percent said yes. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 11/6/2007 4:52:11 PM | show profile Polls of FBI, police, and other experts have stated that torture rarely succeeds in getting valuable information since the torturee says anything they think the torturer wants to hear, just to stop the suffering. It also debases those who employ it and those who support its use. I think those who support it (and those who claim it isn't torture) should be willing to undergo the process so that they have a clearer idea in order to make such a claim. Torture by the US also plays into the hands of the terrorists (like so many other things BushCo has done), who use it as a marketing tool to claim that the US is evil. Abu Ghraib did wonders for Al Qaeda marketing in the Moslem world. |
| Stanley_Milgram | Posted – 11/6/2007 5:49:04 PM | show profile I think that 69% of Americans simply think that waterboarding is an extreme sport, that's all. |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 11/6/2007 6:52:09 PM | show profile Well as Condi and her boyfriend put it in two separate interviews.... "The US does NOT torture. Period" I think Stan_M is right, some people probably think it's some sort of water sport - like snowboarding. |
| crimedog | Posted – 11/6/2007 7:52:44 PM | show profile Hang ten! |
| keltoi | Posted – 11/6/2007 11:20:54 PM | show profile In Bushian Newspeak, Nikon, "torture" is what the "evildoers" do. When BushCo does the same thing, or, as is such the rage these days, when they "outsource" torture, it's not torture. It's "persuading with enthusiasm." |
| crimedog | Posted – 11/6/2007 11:34:33 PM | show profile I happen to catch three minutes of the insane Bill O'Reilly tonight with bimbo squad discussing water boarding. If the president decides it's needed then as a country we should submit and abide. We're saving lives here and as far as we know legally it's not torture. Real torture was trying to stretch O'Reilly to four minutes. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 11/7/2007 12:27:36 AM | show profile All I can say is God help any American captured by foreigners. They know exactly what they can expect (the old goose gander deal). |
| crimedog | Posted – 11/7/2007 7:58:30 AM | show profile The new international technique to counter US love for water boarding - sand boarding. This is where they stuff your head under three feet of burning sand. |
