Should anybody be charged with a crime for torture?

[fsstnotch]

I did not read all of this thread.. mainly the first page and some of the 2nd but here is my take. Mind you, I served in teh military during this umm... war? Lived at Camp Bucca for a year which is one of the biggest prisons in Iraq... sorry.. the Government doesn't want them called prisons anymore because we don't take prisoners.. we take "detainees." So Detainment Facility!

Anyways, the question is should anyone be charged for torture? The answer.... unfortunately YES. Taking orders or not, every military member is given the same training. The training that says to do the right thing even if ordered to do else. Also unfortunate for these individuals is the Geneva Conventions Act of 1957 that says all prisoners will be treated fairly yadda yadda yadda.

Now if the question had read.. Do I think they should be punished? For the most part my answer would be no. Why? Imagine the message we would be sending to the world if we treated prisoners.. err.. detainees, sorry, like these criminals treat our PRISONERS. Cutting their heads off, etc. The difference here is that we are fighting CRIMINALS... not other countries who follow any sort of rules of war. And that is why I don't feel geneva conventions should apply so much here. To an extent, yes... but partly not.

That's my take. Like it or not! haha