Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
Man I have to say your being naive thinking we haven't done some atrocious things in war....it's war. The millions of men and women who have fought for the USA can't be watched all the time but we get glimpses of things and if you get glimpses your only seeing a small percentage.....but what is torture? Aggressive interrogation techniques? Who defines it? Is a picture posing with captives torture? Waterboarding?
As humans we all get emotional and stress will do some things to you that otherwise never comes out. Look at the Vietnam war, WWII and the more recent wars.
I don't think every soldier tortures and not every instance requires it but when it's time to torture to get info from prisoner or take care of business I say do it and move on. The potus was against it and all this other drivel about Gitmo and terrorist being tortured. McCain even took the approach of no torture but it's just my opinion that they are wrong. It doesn't mean I don't respect McCain I just don't agree with him. Now the potus....I respect next to nothing about him. Haha breaking news huh?
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I do understand the feelings a lot of us have about this issue and I know also that a good bit of these kinds of things happen and the temptation to use methods that maybe a lot of us might oppose, I also understand that the majority of us who are saying not to do these things are not close to the situation and demanding something be done then passing judgement on how it is done... I just don't believe we should have a policy of using torture as an accepted method of interrogation... As far as water boarding, I'm not sure that can be considered torture, it seems to be more psychological than psychical to me but I have not been water boarded so I don't know, doesn't seem any worse to me than putting a bright light in his face and yelling at him for 10 or 12 hours.