Waterboarding

[TK-8252]

Why are we doing it? What good could possibly come from the U.S. government using torture as a method of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on terrorism suspects?

Check out this video to see waterboarding in action:

http://www.current.tv/video/?id=13462474

We tried a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, in 1947 for using waterboarding on a U.S. citizen. He was sentenced to fifteen years of "hard labor" for waterboarding. Why aren't we sentencing Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, etc. for war crimes then?

[Windu Chi]

Originally Posted by TK-8252

Why are we doing it? What good could possibly come from the U.S. government using torture as a method of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on terrorism suspects?

You should forward this question to that sith lord Dick Cheney and his apprentice Geroge Bush, TK-8252.
Those two men aren't going to stop whatever wrong they are doing.
They have to much power to give a damn.

Originally Posted by TK-8252

Why aren't we sentencing Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, etc. for war crimes then?

Their ass will only be grass if the democrats takes back the Senate and House of Representatives.
If that don't work then it is just not going to ever happen.

[Dagobahn Eagle]

The Wiki' has more, including a link to Dick Cheney's support of waterboarding.

On the convicted Japanese, though, he was not given 15 years solely for water torture. He was also found guilty of other forms of physical abuse, and of "converting ICRC supplies for his own use".

We tried a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, in 1947 for using waterboarding on a U.S. citizen. He was sentenced to fifteen years of "hard labor" for waterboarding. Why aren't we sentencing Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, etc. for war crimes then?

Because they're the good guys.

Sigh, and to think that the main neo-con argument for going into Iraq was that he had torture chambers. Geez.

Check out this video to see waterboarding in action:

They do it to soldiers during training, too? What?

Predicts this will turn into a triplicate of the "Road to Guantánamo" thread, complete with mis-conceptions about prisoners' rights, accusations of us making up evidence, and the statement that what's happening at Guantánamo is not torture.

[Q]

Because they're the good guys.

Any chance of them (or us by proxy ) being viewed as such evaporated with the revelation of this barbarism. I can't believe that the leaders of my country could actually feel justified in conducting interrogations in this manner. Do they actually think that people will believe that "It's not torture" simply because they say it isn't?

[Totenkopf]

DE:They do it to soldiers during training, too? What?

I've seen a doc or two on this. It's during escape and evasion training. The purpose is obviously to familiarize soldiers (or at least spec ops troopers) with the types of interrogation techniques they may be subjected to if captured by the enemy.

[Nancy Allen``]

Waterboarding? Groovy.

Oh, you mean water torture? If you wanna torture use a 9 volt battery and a bucket of salt water, hey don't you be shocked just because they are. Or have a psycho Indian bitch carve them up. If you were to torture that is. Really there are more effective ways of accomplishing most tasks torture is used for, with the possible exception of punishment.

[sockerbit89]

People learned 700 years ago that torture is absolutely worthless as an interregation method. It's funny that the US gouverment are actually this dumb.