Waterboarding is Torture… Period

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by Briant, Oct 29, 2007.

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    http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/10/waterboarding-is-torture-perio/

    Shameful administration.
     
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  2. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    I enjoyed water boarding as a kid.... wait a second!
     
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  3. GTech

    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    Leave it to briant to be concerned about terrorists ;)
     
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    LOL!

    I personally don't care for them myself, if they want to kill women and children then guess what, you threw the rule book out the window. Lets just make sure we are doing this for the RIGHT reason.
     
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    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    It's not the first thread he's created seeking sympathy and support for his buds. But, what can you expect from a ron paul supporter? We have on thread here where one RP supporter is attempting to create sympathy for terrorists and hatred for America, and in another thread, gemini is proving that ron paul supporters don't care about our soldiers at all, that it's the terrorists they care about.

    They just keep exposing themselves, for their true colors.
     
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    omgitsfletch Well-Known Member

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    We want to bring them home, but that means we don't care. Great logic you got there, here's a cookie!

    Also, the fact we want to have some form of humanity makes us terrorist supporters! I guess we should rip out all their fingernails and toenails too, and stack them naked on top of each other. Hell, why we don't finish off every interrogation with a good old-fashioned bullet to the skull!

    Keep 'em coming, GTech, you spew pure comedy gold.
     
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    ferret77 Heretic

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    i saw a video of water boarding , it didn't look that bad
     
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  8. GTech

    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    Oh, I believe some of them care, fletch. I just don't believe it's about our troops.

    You might want head over and scold your boy, gemini. He/She is clearly demonstrating what I'm talking about. These are the sort of things, like trutherism, conspiracies, neo-nazi links, etc, that are probably best swept under the carpet. At least for now ;)
     
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    Briant Peon

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    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/u...tml?_r=2&ref=politics&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

    Me, John McCain, Malcom Nance...
     
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  10. GTech

    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    Always putting yourself before others? "Me, John McCain, Malcom Nance..." I have to remind one of my kids about that, all the time.

    McCain can have his opinion. McCain has also said many great things about our country. What have you ever said good about America, briant?

    We know who you feel sorry for, that's for sure ;)
     
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  11. Briant

    Briant Peon

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    I don't need permission to have an opinion. I know a lot of neocons think that means I belong in GITMO, but a closer approximation of the truth is that the neocons belong at The Hague.
     
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    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    No one said you needed permission to have the same sort of opinions that terrorists in gitmo have. That's your choice as a ron paul supporter. I'm just happy to give you the medium to shine ;)
     
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    KalvinB Peon

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    Waterboarding is part of military training.

    So what if it is "torture?"

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/09/ntort209.xml

    Define "severe"

    Seek help. Paranoia is a severe mental condition. I've never met people so much as impressed for being able to form an opinion as Liberals.
     
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    guerilla Notable Member

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    I'd like to opportunity to provide a demonstration of waterboarding on all of the waterboarding advocates in the forum. Let's see what they think when I stuff a rag in their mouths, and then pour water into their nostrils, while bailing water over their bodies in a restrained state.

    It's ludicrous that anyone would say that waterboarding is not torture. Pol Pot used it. It was used in the Spanish Inquisition.

    As John McCain said recently, engaging in these tactics destroys any moral high ground America has. And this is a man who was tortured in Vietnam as a POW and might have some idea what he is talking about.
     
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    KalvinB Peon

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    Hitler used tanks.
     
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    #16
    The Geneva conventions declare waterboarding as torture.

    Anyone care to denounce the Geneva conventions?
     
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    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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    You'll be providing a source?
     
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    Where does the geneva convention say that "waterboarding" is torture? I don't see the term anywhere in the convention.

    Define cruel treatment. Define "severe" which is required to define "torture"

    I see whitespace. So it's just your interpretation based on what you think "cruel treatment" and "severe pain" constitute.

    I think if our armed services use waterboarding to train soldiers then it's fine to be used against our enemy. After all, isn't that what you want? You want us to treat our enemies no different than we treat ourselves?

    Why do you think cops must be tazed?
     
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    GTech Rob Jones for President!

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