Posted on 12/10/2014 5:03:48 PM PST by Bettyprob
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is reminding Americans that no civilized nation should ever torture prisoners.
“Torture is wrong, unambiguously. Period. The end. Civilized nations do not engage in torture and Congress has rightly acted to make absolutely clear that the United States will not engage in torture,” Cruz said during the Q-and-A portion of a speech at the Heritage Foundation.
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I don’t see anything wrong with what he said. He didn’t agree with the report.
Children discuss acts.
Adults discuss conditions.
I don’t really have any questions re waterboarding. We, as a nation can’t risk the reciprocity when our troops are captured by an enemy. Not being well adapted to doublethink, I just can’t see that it’s a good strategy.
That would be classy green eyes looking at a host in the sun.
And with that Ticking Time Bomb in Wash DC, Teddy?
Who ya gonna call?
Yeah, right! After Pearl Harbor the fanatical Japanese Bushido Warriors were actively seeking us out to surrender? Wrong! Read some history, friend. You do not know what you are talking about.
I liked what Rush said today.
Torture is trying to go to sleep night after night wondering if your loved one jumped from the tower to avoid being burned, or just burned to death.
So let me see how this works..Torture is bad but droning someone to smithereens without a trial is A OK..just seeing if I understand the difference..its a no no to throw some water into some terrorist schmucks face, that’s bad..but droning them killing them instantly is fine
Say what you have to say, then do what you have to do.
There it is but there are really folks stupid enough to think that are soldiers, or kidnapped citizens, will not get treated horribly if we ‘don’t torture’. They are really that foolish.
Does the 8th amendment convey rights to non citizens and our enemies......?
do tell.....
no, he doesn’t. Most people do not agree with that.
Nope. But I do not believe that returning evil for evil will serve a Christian nation well either. The definition of torture is important here.
explain...
are=our.
not the Japanese, but it’s true in the other theatre....
Oddly enough, using Bill Clinton’s technique is appropriate.
“It depends what your definition of ‘torture’ is.”
And this isn’t as disingenuous as it sounds. For example, *a* dictionary definition of torture is inflicting intense physical, intellectual or emotional pain on someone.
So what if you give them an injection that makes them cooperative, without increasing their stress level?
Importantly, what is often thought of as torture, physical abuse, is relatively ineffective in gaining useful information from a subject. Typically, its use is reflective of poor morale on the part of the torturer.
The US military used waterboarding, at the time called “the water cure”, on Moro Pirates during the Philippine Insurrection, over a hundred years ago. As with most other technologies, the means to gain information has changed a lot since then. So why waterboard?
That is a big question. Our pharmacopeia alone has hundreds of chemicals that could be used to get information from uncooperative prisoners. Why weren’t they used?
Or were they?
Define Torture !Do we torture our pilots and special operators ?
the problem is, his headline makes people think he’s agreeing with Di Fi - regardless of whether it’s true or not.
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