Can we just be honest and say we don't care if our military tortures terrorists whether

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we get info or not? Someone sent me the the following message as a response to an answer I gave...

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Subject: Torture is illegal.
Message: “The media usually characterize [waterboarding] as ‘simulated drowning.’ That’s incorrect. To be effective, waterboarding is usually real drowning that simulates death.” -- Evan Wallach, former Judge Advocate General
Four high-ranking officers of the Navy, Army and Marine Corps condemned waterboarding in a letter to the Justice Dept. in 2006. Major General Scott Black, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General, Major General Jack Rives, U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General, Rear Admiral Bruce MacDonald, U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General and Brigadier Gen. Kevin Sandkuhler, unanimously and unambiguously agreed that such conduct is inhumane and illegal and would constitute a violation of international law, to include Common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
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My response...

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I can honestly and unapologetically tell you that I don't care. These laws are created by men that think they are better then the rest of the human race. These same men have never left the comforts of their equivalents of our White House and its staff. They call it inhumane, barbaric, and so on as people called Native Americans savages, but for the majority of humans its a natural, instinctive, consequential way of life. We are attacked by terrorists, in the long run, because of our high and mighty feelings of "We are better then the savages". We are not. We are the same and should stop acting like we are not.
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Maybe I just got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning but I know I'm not alone in my feelings.
 
Innocent, if someone broke into my home and hurt one hair on one of my children they would be begging for waterboarding after I got through with them...As for the question, as far as i am concerned you wanna mess with the US then be prepared to take your lumps and as many as we deem necessary. War is not supposed to be pretty. So don't declare war on a country willing to fight back in whatever way we feel is necessary. Well that was before the namby pamby terrorist loving Obama was sworn in. Now the policy is to just apologize, bow down and bend over.
 
Let's put the shoes on the other foot.

If someone broke into you house and killed your family and you were in charge of the investigation and had suspects what would you do to get the truth out of them.

Book is that 100 to 1 says that waterboarding would be the mildest thing used.
 
To accept torture is disgraceful. It goes against everything America stands for and all who participated in it should be in prison.
 
oh my. here we go again. you and your precious terriost. maybe from the damn dirty deals and the uncaring way you are treating the american people you wouldn't care. You don;t give a crap about the terriost torture you just want to diss on Bush. I think you idiots made your point only one hundred and ninety nine times now. we get it. you can punish the american people but what ever you do , do not touch the terriost prisoners. we got it, ok. did any of the poor dears drown? too freaking bad.they can cut our soldiers heads off bt we mustn
t put water on them. I mean after all our vets are extremest. and i beg to differ I feel i am better than the terriost can;t say the same for the barry people. they favor terriost over their fellow americans. And what you are doing to this country is worse than humane. its lower than whale crap. so mum up about your precious terriost. we don;t pity them they get enough from you.
 
I'm all for letting liberals have a shot at interrogation. Let's see how cuddling and mocha lattes work.
 
I'll be honest and say that, no, I don't believe it's okay to torture people for the hell of it. I don't disapprove of the selective use of water boarding when there's reasonable room to believe it will yield valuable information that will save lives. But you're making it sound more like you'd be okay with the practice being widespread and not caring whether or not it yields information. THAT crosses a line I'm not willing to go over.
 
How refreshingly honest. Yes, I do think people who think we should torture even if it gets us nothing should say so. That way when I have a political conversation with someone who has that opinion, I'll know right off the back what their true thoughts are - and then I won't have to waste my time trying to have a conversation with them on the topic.

By the way, I do believe most Americans are better than the terrorists (or savages as you call them) - in that we don't plot ways to kill innocent people.

Oh, and you might want to take a moment to wonder if any of the suspected terrorists that get tortured are actually innocent - but maybe you think it's worth torturing a few innocents to get at the bad guys. That's totally your right to have that opinion (if you do) - and you have the right to be open & honest about it.
 
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