Water Boarding Options

[jaeman]

Many of you may recall this topic being discussed as a political issue in the current 2008 Presidential Election.

For those who aren't familiar with the topic, water boarding is a form of tortue which utilizes water and simulates drowning in a controlled setting. The process has allegedly been used by the CIA to interrogate detained terrorists and is seen more of an interrogation technique than torture. That's right, United States law does not recognize water boarding as a form of torture and allows the practice. Seems ironic because government officials claim that the United States of America definitely does not practice torture.

Do you think water boarding should be classified as tortue in United States law and the practice be stopped?

[Comptine]

I didn't say they were saints or did nothing wrong.

The CIA got into trouble for the dehumanization of the prisoners. The soldiers were dishonorably discharged. They did something ethically wrong and they got caught.

There are certain ethics that have to be maintained for everyone on this planet. What our country did to the prisoners can be done to our own troops.

Why is it perfectly okay for us to feel outrage over our POWs getting hurt but it's apparently "sissy" and karma when non-Americans suffer the same treatment?

It wasn't that Abu Ghraib was just scare tactics against our enemies. Our country violated international code. The soliders dehumanized other human beings, whether they were enemies or not. The ethics code was created because of the history of unethical practices (especially with POWs in Japanese and Vietnamese POW camps and concentration camps and etc.)