Torture: A Matter of Opinion or a Question of Legality?
malclave:
US law on torture: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sup_01_18_10_I_20_113C.html
It defines torture as, among other things, “the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering”.
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Thank you for keeping the debate on track. This is my understanding of the meaning of torture. Since waterboarding is intended to extract information rather than inflict pain or suffering and since the adverse effect of the technique is only temporary fright I refuse to allow liberals to win this debate by giving words incorrect new meanings that suit their intellectually dishonest arguments.
Torture is wrong and should never be used except in the limited exigent situations described by Dershowitz but waterboarding is not torture and the Taliban and al Qaeda are not entitled to the benefit of The Geneva Converntion, nor should they be unless your intention is to undermine it.
America is better than to allow liberals to defame with politically motivated, dishonest characterizations, those who have honorably defended America and the world over the past 7 years from the attempts to turn civilzation back to the 7th century.
Don’t allow liberals to win this argument by acknowledging that the Bush administration has condoned torture. It has not. The waterboarding of 3 al Qaeda leaders was necessary and justified, but it was not torture.
Those who put the comfort of KSM on a higher plane than the lives of his intended victims are lacking a moral comapass and the the ability to think logically about this subject.
