Torture is simply wrong.
Water boarding is not torture. Puling out fingernails with a pliers is torture. Sticking a PVC pipe bomb up the rectum is torture. Wrapping piano wire around the penis and then parading naked girls in front is torture but water boarding is not torture.
Simply, terrorists are not supposed to be granted/guaranteed any “rights” period because of their combatant status, in addition to the fact that they are NOT US citizens...this is all liberal BS speak trying to muddy the waters here.
US citizens engaged in terrorism need to be summarily tried and executed for treason.
Does the 8th amendment convey rights to non citizens and our enemies......?
do tell.....
Define Torture !Do we torture our pilots and special operators ?
Terrorists are not soldiers. Terrorists do not have Geneva Convention™ rights of any kind. It is impossible to mistreat a terrorist. Simply NOT killing them is good treatment.
[ You’re “disappointed” because Cruz is standing up for the Eight Amendment?
Torture is simply wrong. ]
Agreed!
What was described about Gitmo wasn’t technically Torture, Torture leaves physical scars... What was done at Gitmo was Psychological warfare used in order to extract information from Non-aligned soldiers who were fighting without a Nation State.
The eighth amendment does not apply to non-citizens (and neither do any of the other amendments.) Try again.
Terrorists have no rights where the eighth amendment to the Constitution is concerned, as they are not US Citizens.
Now with that said, there needs to be care by our agents in CIA not to violate the Geneva Convention on interrogation and torture. I do not believe they did that, because all that was done was submitted to attorney’s familiar with international law, and approved.
Stop playing the Democrat playbook, just because you are a Ted Cruz supporter. If we allow a right ‘charismatic’ person to do as he pleases or jump when he speaks in his/her defense, without holding that person to a conservative standard that upholds the right’s beliefs, then we are no better than those who elected Obama.
I like Cruz, but he is not the infallible one.
Obama and the Dems, who think giving the ‘Miranda rights’ to non citizens and prosecuting them as citizens, are playing games with our nations laws and creating a Constitutional Crisis to destabilize our nation.
NO TERRORIST FROM A FOREIGN NATION HAS ANY RIGHT TO THE US CONSITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS....They do, however, have the rights to the Geneva Convention protections. I do not believe our interrogations violated those.