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Originally Posted by stengun
Howdy,
Being a left-wing nut job, I'm all for torture! Well, just as long as it Republicans and lawyers. Especially Republican lawyers! 
Seriously. If a person/enemy/ terrorist/whomever has info and you know they have info, make them talk however/whatever you have to do to make them talk.
At the same time, why waterboard someone 183 times? Doesn't make any sense to me.
If they are a enemy combatant/terrorist, torture them. Get the info from them. Have a trial. If convicted, execute them. If not convicted, turn them loose. Don't hold them for years and years without a trial.
No need to torture them repeatedly. All info that they have is very time sensitive. Anything that they know will be useless within a few days.
At the same time, do you really think that a suicide bomber is going to talk? If he/she is a hard core zealot and is willing to give their life for the "Cause", I willing to bet that they will never tell you anything usefull. What do you think?
Waterboarding. It might not be physical torture, but it sure is psychological torture. That's why it works so good.
Paul |
The whole idea of "intelligence" is to extract EVERYTHING he knows. All knowledge is 'useful.' You combine the little one knows with a little another one knows until you have a picture.
Why waterboard hundreds of times? Because that is the purpose of it. To zap every ounce of energy out of the enemy. When he is totally exhausted, physically and mentally, HE doesn't even know what he is telling or who he is telling it too. As his energy level falls to zero, so does his resistance. That, not pain and suffering, is the aim of waterboarding.