Sanctioned Degradation

Newsweek and their liberal bias is clearly demonstrated in this article. Liberals want to interogate these barbarian terrorists by placing them in encounter groups and have them discuss their feelings. Most people with commmon sense will understand this is waste of time. Liberals will take heart in the fact this humane treatment will make them feel good. Liberalism is all about feeling good reguardless of results or consequences. These barbarian terrorists are NOT CRIMINALS, they are worse than criminlas. That said as a just nation of free people we cannot treat them, once caught as prisioners as they would treat us. We should not use physical torture that results in scars or physical injuries. As prisioners we should treat them humanely. However for the purpose of interogation to prevent future loss of life to any innocent people, here in the US or elsewhere, these torrorists should be subjected to unpleasant interogation techniques. Waterboarding sounds like a great tool for this purpose. It certainly did the job and provided excellent results and the subjects were never harmed. None of the so called "torture" by the meida and other fools,is really torture. Yes, it is unpleasant and "mean" but it is necessary.

Unless they were beaten, their nails pulled, subjected to electric shock, poured hot wax in their ears, or any other such method which inflicted unbearable physical pain on them - PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER US WITH THE STORIES OF THEIR SO CALLED TORTURE - because it was not torture.

Not one of these "tactics" upsets me in the least. Where's the concern for U.S. citizens killed. I worked for almost ten years in Saudi, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Most of the people like everywhere are okay but even they only loved my money that I spent. The religious conservatives, not even radicals, hate us because we are heathens or athiest or worse. Treating them nice is only appropriate when they leave us alone and live quietly in their 16th Century world.

You've got to be kidding ...sleep depravation, pouring water on one's head, close quarters by women, insects, etc are equated with TORTURE......get a life panty waists

The Abu Gharib soldiers who were just following orders got used like a bunch of sorry suckers by the military by pleading guilty and spending time in jail. Only a fool would join the US militart,

No suspected terrorist deserves to be treated as well as my dog!

i am far from a left wing liberal, but I cannot imagine how treating people like animals helps in any fashion whatsoever. The fact is, there are many far more useful techniquest to get real intelligence from captives and they do not result in the fallout of having those who would harm us having tons of recruitment propaganda to gain even more radical followers to continue this useless cycle of revenge by one side justifying revenge by the other! This whole thing reminds me of the old family feuds that were prevalent in the early years of America! Revenge begets revenge. There is no solution there. I want a country that is safe from terrorism so my kids can grow up without fear or reprisal from foreign terrorists who justify their actions by pointing out ours! Look at the comments from the idiots on here that talk about murdering innocent islamic children in retaliation for the 9/11 bombings and then tell me that similar idiots on the islamic side will not use these treatments to justify killing our children! All we are doing is perpetuating a cycle of violence that does nothing for us!

If it's good enough (or maybe bad enough) for our US Military, why is it "torture" for our enemies??? I recently returned from Kuwait on an assignment. I was sitting next to a 19yo female in the dining hall. The whole table was talking about the potential terrorist threat that was discovered in Kuwait. We got to speaking about what should be done about terrorists. And of course, the subject of detention and interrogation came up. Most of those at the table had been through SERE training. Yes, they are waterboarded. Yes, they are harshly treated. Yes, they are kept up for days on end. But as the 19 said to me, I sure would rather have a US Army Sargeant prepare me for what MAY be coming rather than experience it first hand at the hands of someone who hates me. If it is good enough for the US Military, why is it NOT acceptable for terrorists???

BLEEDING HEART LIBS !!!!!! isay do WHATEVER it takes. these people hate us . they would kill you and your loved ones without any sign of remorse. and as far as what the rest of the world thinks , after you have extracted all usefull information, line them all up for exacution or lobotomy. remember two can keep a secret when one is dead.

Typical newsweek, blame America, do you people throw down a prayer rug five times a day and bow to mecca? These people aren't boy scouts. I read an article where a group of these animals buried a 13 year girl up to her neck and stoned her to death for BEING RAPED!!. Yea, the religion of peace.

These pigs can't be exterminated fast enough as far as I'm concerned.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Those prisoners are being treated better than convicts in the U.S. a P.O.W. is just that. They would not take you prisoner, they would put you on T.V. and cut your head off, PERIOD. I say feed them to the sharks!

It's realy too bad that we are treating animals like animals to save some of our own people and it doesn't bother me at all but I am not a bleeding heart liberal either.

Wow lets keep talking about Guantanamo and the prisoner abuse. Its already been reported 500,000 times. Don't you have anything better to write about? How about the Iranian young boys who were raped in prison repeatedly? How about anything that is actually "news".

Why not wrap them in wet pigskin; place them in the sun and tell them if they talk it will be taken off;? If not, it will squeeze them to death - and they can forget thier umpteen viergins, etc.

completely agree with the few posts ahead of me. SO WHAT if these terrorists were submitted to some embarrassment??? WHO CARES if they spoken to like an animal and were forced to bark (or strip...or pray to something other than their "god" - a "god" which apparently condones REAL torture - like killing innocent men, women, and children)??

The people who whine and complain about U.S. treatment of terrorist detainees make me sick. If you had lost a loved one in the 9/11 attack, I doubt that you would be so sympathetic. These terrorists ARE animals and deserve to be treated much worse than they are. Every single one of them should be submitted to the methods of torture and death that they have inflicted (or wish to inflict) upon U.S. citizens. Every single U.S. citizen should thank God and the U.S. military for the relative safety that we enjoy.

WAKE UP! The only way to defeat terrorism is to cut it off at the root. And if detainees are forced to have a female interrogator invade their "personal space" or are forced to strip in order to obtain information that can potentially prevent future terrorist attacks, who the $@&! cares?? The men, women and children should all be eliminated.