Q&A: Does the Fact That Some of Our Troops Have Been Water-Boarded Make the Practice NOT Torture?
Question by Bug: Does the fact that some of our troops have been water-boarded make the practice NOT torture?
I have seen many answers here, regarding torture, say that our own troops and security personnel have been water-boarded in order to prepare them for what they may face if they are captured.
That must be a horrible experience for them.
But does the fact that we do water-board on our own troops, as “training”, make water-boarding prisoners in our custody any less of a crime? (Because it IS a crime).
And what is the difference between water-boarding our own troops as a “training exercise” and water-boarding a prisoner in order to extract “information”?
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No It is Still torture . I saved my little sisters life once from drowning in a lake and I can tell you that to have vast amounts of water down your throat IS TORTURE
No, but it sure means they know more about it than you and a lot of the others do!
No. Since when do two wrongs make a right? It’s responsible to prepare our soldiers, the same way it’s irresponsible to torture prisoners.
If that “Crime” as you call it saved American lives than I don’t care. And our methods of water boarding are rather gentle in comparison to what other countries have done and still do.
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Yes it does.
Show me where I can find the statute that says waterboarding is torture. I don’t know where it is, but apparently you do.
it’s torture resistance training… so it’s torture still… that’s the whole point… we give them a little dose of torture so they know what to expect…
Yes. Not the brutal torture dems & the media make it out to be. Listen to Franks or Pelosi, now THAT’s torture.
I like this idea..
If we do it to ourselves, we can do it to other people…
That’s probably why Saddam was gassing his own people.
No, waterboarding is torture according to U.S. and international laws (no matter which lies Dick Cheney concocts on his “torture tour”). Our troops were subjected to controlled waterboarding as training purposes about how to avoid drowning if the same method was applied on them during conflict. The SERE group co-opted this technique from the Chinese, who used it on U.S. soldiers to obtain false confessions (FALSE!) Waterboarding and other inhumane treatment is not only illegal, but produces no actionable intelligence. The U.S. tried, convicted, and executed members of the Japanese military after WWII after learning they used waterboarding on our soldiers. During the 1990′s, a Texas sheriff was convicted of using waterboarding on a suspect and is serving time in prison. The governor at the time offered him no pardon. Who was that governor? George Walker Bush.
Lets try it on the republicans, rush, and fox news channel.
Should we water-board every prisoner we get our hands on just because we can? No.
Should we water-board to obtain information from known terrorists in order to protect American (or any other) lives? Absolutely!!
I’m sure that water-boarding is not a pleasant experience (to put it lightly) for American soldiers, but I would subject myself to it as training if I knew that our enemies were likely to use it on me. (I am not a member of the U.S Armed Forces, but I am very grateful to those who are and appreciate their service.)
Again, concerning the unpleasantness of water-boarding, it is much less “criminal” than some alternatives. We could burn them or pull out there fingernails or cut off the heads of their comrades or their families. How’s that for “enhanced interrogation techniques”?
In SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) Training, which is required of all elite forces (i.e., US Special Forces, Navy Seals, etc.), they do practice an reverse-engineered of torture that is practiced on the USA if they are captured. The difference is that under SERE Training, it is under a very controlled environment and they will not risk as much of injury to the soldiers. However, we basically reverse-engineered the reverse-engineered methods to extract information. The people in charge of the SERE program advised against the development of a reverse-enigeered the SERE program, as they know it is ineffective and can cause near-death experiences in the original environment which it would return to in that case.
Crime?
You make me sick. You are willing to let the enemy do what they will without using the means at your disposal to extract information that will SAVE LIVES?
What is your idea of acceptable mean to force information?
Twinkie deprivation?
Reading them poetry until they sob?
You’re pathetic.
Leave the man work to the men, you quivering blob.
This is a real war with many lives at stake.
If I thought I could save the lives of only one or two Soldiers by torturing some terrorist, you better believe I would do it.
Terrorists are NOT lawful enemy combatants, nor are they citizens deserving any constitutional protections.
Grow up.
It is NOT torture, it is “enhanced interrogation”. Despite the rantings of B.O. and the loony lefties.
Barack Obama has reserved the right to order the same techniques.
What most people fail to see is that this was a political move by B.O. to divert attention from the protests in the streets during his first 100 days in office. He released those CIA memos during the protests!
“pay no attention to that man behind the curtain…”
I don’t really care if it’s Torture.I just cannot figure out a way to feel sorry about how we treated a few savages.
RWE