Breaking The Will

Mondless twit. The people of Dallas will enjoy this guy as a neighbor. He is the one who buys a leablower and blows all his leaves into your yard and then claims they aren't his.

The Philippines in the 1900s? I can top that. The Catholic Church used waterboarding during the Holy Inquisition to great effect in getting people to confess to anything from heresy to witchcraft.

The Philippines in the 1900s? You can find clear descriptions of waterboarding in histories of the Holy Inquisition. The Roman Catholic Church used it with great effect in getting people to confess to everything from heresy to witchcraft.

They approved of this and the Abu Graib $hit and everybody knows it. Pouring water into someone's mouth and nose while they are trying to breathe is not simulated drowning, it's just drowning. Look at the Hitchens vid on youtube.

GIFT OF USA ON WORLDS" HUMAN RIGHTS DAY ---- LONG LIVE US !!!!!!!

All of these folks are not true Americans. They have lowered us to the lowest . They all should spend some years in prison at the least.

Waterboarding Is Torture, in 1947 the U.S. Called It a War Crime, Sentenced an Enemy Officer to 15 Years Hard Labor.

Sen. McCain thought tat water-bording and other tortue techniques were not effective. Is he aliberal? Befoe we went on a operation on Nui Ba Dihn, I had a discussion with other infantrymen in my platoon. If we were captured, what would we say? Among other misinformation, we would confess to was that the aircraft that made photographs at night with strobe lights, were actually making X-Rays of the area. If the VC were smart, they would send all of the troops in the caves above ground so that the caves would not be detected. I was shot, but not captured. If we could think up misleading information, what could the radical Muslims think up. Sen. McClain thought that torture was not effective, Why do the Chickenhawks still want it?

Condolezza Rice as National Security Administrator Coordinated Bush-Cheney Administration Approval of Torture.
When Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld wrote "snoflake" ordering General Geoffrey Miller to Iraq to institute his "effective" Guantanamo Interrogation Interrogation techniques, waterboarding, sensory deprivation, extreme temperature, loud noise for hours, dogs as threats, humiliation and nudity in front of female soldiers, etc....

They Are All Guilty of Nuernberg War Crimes.

As one who was waterboarded as a SERE student, I can say that its use is certainly torture. In our case, we were each subjected to the treatment for five to 10 minutes. For a short duration like that, I would say that there are no lasting effects. However, because of the duration and frequency this would be used in a real-life situation, it goes beyond the bounds of what we should do as a country.

The issue in setting high standards for what we do is to be able to hold the world to similar standards. Note, please, the techniques here were developed from trying to help our military learn to cope with the techniques used by the world's most brutal regimes. These are not the techniques that a free democracy would want to use on others because it doesn't want them used on its soldiers. What would Americans think of these techniques if they say video of them being used on 18-year old privates captured by our enemies? The standard is to be above reproach and occupy the moral high ground to protect your own. And, while the sentiment expressed here is common, we also have lots of evidence that any information gathered via torture is highly suspect and unreliable. So, getting them to "open up their traps" may only make it worse if it's done improperly and could well lead to red herring and rabbit trails that cost lives in the wasted days those unfruitful leads are chased. Again, do you want to see your son or daughter being subjected to these torture techniques on the Internet? If we do it, we can't easily denounce others who do it as well.