Good, it worked. I saw Zero Dark Thirty.
According to W's appointee Asa Hutchison torture was "widespread" and "unproductive".
Good, it worked. I saw Zero Dark Thirty.
Obliquely agree. One wonders if RJ is being too hard on W. Arguably some drone- or sniper-strike 'victims' would have preferred W's softer methods.
We signed the Geneva Convention and torture is defined. There is no question outside of W's cronies and apologists that waterboarding is definitively torture. It's black letter law. There is no disputing this.
Anyone involved is a war criminal.
Care to look up what the Geneva Convention says about summary execution?
So committing war crimes is OK if we had good intentions?
We executed people for doing to our soldiers what we did on institutional basis.
Care to look up what the Geneva Convention says about summary execution?
I'm waiting.
To think you can't hunt down and target opposition military or political leaders in a war is ludicrous.
Using your logic, it would have been illegal for us to target Hitler or Goebbels during WWII.
To think you can't hunt down and target opposition military or political leaders in a war is ludicrous.
Using your logic, it would have been illegal for us to target Hitler or Goebbels during WWII.
I'm quite sure that both the Bush and Obama administrations have been responsible for torturing detainees. Can't we at least agree that torture in any form is reprehensible? Can't we agree that we wouldn't want American prisoners of war subjected to torture? Can't we agree that America should aspire to be better than that?
I have seen both administrations trample all over the Constitution in an effort to inflict pain on brown-skinned people, with a zeal like a bunch of frat guys at a gang bang.
Torture is a war crime. It is never a "necessary evil". To try to justify torture is barbaric and evil.