CIA and torture

[Piscator]

They cut the heads off of their prisoners, they love videoing themselves cutting the heads off of sometimes innocent Americans...I personally don't care if they are captured and (water boarded, sleep deprived or tortured or what over you want to call it) to get intelligence. I'd rather be water boarded than get my head hacked off with a Rambo knife and we sure aren't doing that to those animals....I'm getting sick of the whole thing really...maybe i'm feeling a little grumpy today but there are many levels of torture from solitary to water board to head chopping...
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[spence]

Originally Posted by Piscator

They cut the heads off of their prisoners, they love videoing themselves cutting the heads off of sometimes innocent Americans...I personally don't care if they are captured and (water boarded, sleep deprived or tortured or what over you want to call it) to get intelligence. I'd rather be water boarded than get my head hacked off with a Rambo knife and we sure aren't doing that to those animals....I'm getting sick of the whole thing really...maybe i'm feeling a little grumpy today but there are many levels of torture from solitary to water board to head chopping...
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I'm perplexed by this reasoning.

Do we judge the merit of our behavior based on our standards or theirs?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

I'm perplexed by this reasoning.

Do we judge the merit of our behavior based on our standards or theirs?

Spence, are you OK with Obama's drone strikes, which we absolutely know for a fact, occasionally result in the death of innocent bystanders? According to Obama, it's OK for us to incinerate innocent bystanders, but not OK to sleep deprive a known terrorist, guilty of mass murder? We can blow up an innocent baby, but not keep Usama Bin Laden awake for a few days?

You go ahead and defend that.

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by spence

I'm perplexed by this reasoning.

Do we judge the merit of our behavior based on our standards or theirs?

We base it on our standards...that's why we don't hack their heads off with a Rambo knife...just toss a little water on them and ask some questions...
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[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Piscator

We base it on our standards...that's why we don't hack their heads off with a Rambo knife...just toss a little water on them and ask some questions...
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And don't let them sleep.

Tragic way of interrogating

[paradoxjim]

[QUOTE=Piscator;1058831]They cut the heads off of their prisoners, they love videoing themselves cutting the heads off of sometimes innocent Americans..

Why doesn't the UN council expend some of the energy they want to use to prosecute US operatives that utilized EITs to stopping the thugs that cut the heads off of captured soldiers and bystanders? I believe that treating POWs in that manner would violate the Geneva convention, wouldn't it? Analysis of the film of the 22 beheaded prisoners suggest that the filming took place over a 4 to 6 hour period. I can't imagine the torture of being dragged around for hours to star in a film featuring your own beheading.

Yeah, I watched the video of the beheadings. I will never wipe the memory of those poor, defeated souls that had resigned themselves to what was coming without a struggle. Had they not been tortured (or drugged) into their dazed state, you would think that one of them would have put up enough resistance to get himself shot rather than waiting passively for the inevitable.

It makes me want to puke that the world now wants to prosecute American operatives.