.....Yet what took place on 9/11, was that not torture?
Another globalist unmasked.
How far does a civilized country go before it begins to act like the barbarians it is fighting? Just asking....
Interesting that half the nation and half the Congress has absolutely no problem with abortion, including late term, but somehow sees waterboarding a scumbag Muslim terrorist as being “morally wrong” and “against out Constitutional principles”
If the waterboarding scenes in Zero Dark Thirty were even halfway close to reality, then I say “so what”? They didn’t bother me one bit, in fact, I cheered them on. Speak out you terrorist slime, and they’ll stop. A terrorist problem, not a USA problem, so let the b******* eat cake after they spit the water out.
If only liberals held the same compassion for the future victims of terrorism as they do for the terrorists.
Constitutional protections are only for Terrorists, Looters, Rioters, Gentle Giants, and Trayvons.
White Cops, Soldiers, Agency Spooks, Fraternities, Republicans named Barry are all GUILTY!
See how that works?
What I never get is how anyone either brings up the Bill or Rights or the Geneva Convention when neither is applicable to these people. The first is for citizens and residents (captured terrorists are neither), and the second is for lawful combatants and civilians which again, neither applies.
If you actually want a functional Geneva Convention you have to put some teeth into the people who violate it from the ‘we didn’t sign on, and barbarically ignore it’ end. If you treat them with kid gloves as they regularly torture and murder your people, you do nothing to deter their actions.
You want to send a message? Reciprocity. They kill our prisoners? Well then we kill theirs right back (after dragging any information out we can by whatever means). Sure we don’t need to be barbarians and do it on posted video, but firing squads still work just fine.
If you let people you are fighting ignore the Geneva Convention without any consequence whatsoever, why the hell would anyone you fight in the future honor it?
Personally, I have no problem with torturing people who are out to kill us in order to save more innocent people from being slaughtered. The terrorists should otherwise be dead, so what is the big deal about a little sleep deprivation or waterboarding in order to save good people?
How sad that we’ve become so stupid that this doesn’t seem rational.
Hey Goldberg, want to know what’s real? God is real.
Why does John McCain hold them accountable only for torture?
Everything they do is done in secret, so why should we expect anything to be on the level?
Anything you care to enlighten us on the drug trade, Senators McCain or Feinstein?
They have neither signed on to or abided by any “agreement” concerning the treatment of captured combatants. They therefor are NOT entitled to any deference concerning the non-use of torture or any other civilized treatment of captured fighters.
Interrogation isn’t torture no were broken no skin cut the passive loons are crazy.
The Damage is done. One of your problems might be, that the conclusion in Europe is, that America simply is a rouge nation. Not better than Russia today or in the past. To be a friend of the US is simply unsexy on our side of the big pond in the meantime. Therefore it will be much easier here to find new alliances for the gouvernments after Merkel, who will stay a staunch ally of the US during her residual therm. Nevertheless - the decay of American influence here in Europe is breathtaking since for the European society you Americans are not the good ones anymore.
I predict the end of NATO and the end of millitary US presence in Europe within the next 10 years.
Regards from Europe
Andreas