When America approves torture they become no better than the enemy. I would say people high in our government who's only contact with the military is to use them as a backdrop for a photo ops. America has hit a new low.
We became the REDCOATS when we invaded Iraq, and now we became the Kempeitai and the Gestapo.
World War II
During World War II, Japanese troops, especially the Kempeitai, as well as the Gestapo, the German secret police, used waterboarding as a method of torture. During the Japanese occupation of Singapore the Double Tenth Incident occurred, which included waterboarding consisting of binding or holding down the victim on his back, placing a cloth over his mouth and nose, and pouring water onto the cloth. In this version, interrogation continued during the torture, with the interrogators beating the victim if he did not reply and the victim swallowing water if he opened his mouth to answer or breathe. When the victim could ingest no more water, the interrogators would beat or jump on his distended stomach.
After Japan surrendered, the United States organized and participated in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, generally called the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. Leading members of Japan's military and government elite were charged, among their many other crimes, with torturing Allied military personnel and civilians. The principal proof upon which their torture convictions were based was conduct that we would now call waterboarding.
i would be all for a ban on waterboarding if the enemy were a signatory of the geneva conventions or some other rule of law regarding conflict between nation states....
in that case,i`m totally for it...cause in that case,it serves as a guarantee that our brave boys will get fair and equal treatment...
but,that isn`t the case here...it`s apples and oranges....we`re getting murdered....be it military personnel,civilians or the press.....
we`re getting no due process...none of our people have the red cross monitoring al qaeda`s treatment of our people being held....
they just torture us(REAL torture),murder us and send back some fingers or an ear......and in some cases,these ghouls videotape the party....
waterboarding has been used sparingly on major al qaeda leaders,has proven effective,and (inconsequentially imo)causes no permanent harm....
rack your brain(both neurons)...would you rather waterboard al zawahiri(if he were alive)and potentially save thousands of americans,or just ban waterboarding period?.....
i`d rather let the powers that be have the tool at their disposal,be it obama/mccain or hillary or the cia,than not have it....
so,forgive me spy,but,your propaganda doesn`t fly here..
btw,take the time to read something that i`m sure won`t matter one bit to you...maybe the lightbulb will go on for some other schmoe who revels in seeing our secret service hamstrung in their battle vs these animals...
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/art...1_L12485957_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-SECURITY.xml
seems there are just as many politically correct quislings in britain as here in the u.s.
you and the rest of"radical islam" suck...
