Is waterboarding torture?

[Dial_tone]

The former agent, who said he participated in the Abu Zubayda interrogation but not his waterboarding, said the CIA decided to waterboard the al Qaeda operative only after he was "wholly uncooperative" for weeks and refused to answer questions.

All that changed -- and Zubayda reportedly had a divine revelation -- after 30 to 35 seconds of waterboarding, Kiriakou said he learned from the CIA agents who performed the technique.

I am 100% on board with it...as long as it isn't me.

 

[EnderJE]

I am 100% on board with it...as long as it isn't me.

When fighting with fire, eh?

You should crash planes into their buildings. That would show'em.

 

[needtogetarmy]

When fighting with fire, eh?

You should crash planes into their buildings. That would show'em.

nah. Genocide is much better. Then we never need to worry about them again.

 

[Dial_tone]

When fighting with fire, eh?

You should crash planes into their buildings. That would show'em.

Too hard to get their people on planes. 2,000 lb bombs will have to do.

 

[EnderJE]

nah. Genocide is much better. Then we never need to worry about them again.

Personally, I think that the problem is that they don't have enough sluts over there.

Could you imagine a religious uprising in Las Vegas or LA? No! Why? The sluts.

 

[CipherLock]

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I'm in, I'm holding a waterboarding party this weekend. I'm also suggesting Fear Factor comes back with a two hour celebrity special with this as a timed challenge.

 

[EnderJE]

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I'm in, I'm holding a waterboarding party this weekend. I'm also suggesting Fear Factor comes back with a two hour celebrity special with this as a timed challenge.

Bring sluts. They're a better draw then waterboarding.

 

[AAP]

nah. Genocide is much better. Then we never need to worry about them again.

I agree. Dumb bitches haven't done much to rise above the Stone Age. The world could be a better place without it's weakest link. Goodbye.

 

[musclemom]

I think torture is a retarded way to obtain information. I can't believe they haven't concocted drugs that are far more effective at making people spill the truth. Load 'em up with sodium pentathol and hook their asses up to a lie detector if nothing else. Water torture? Fuck me take us back in time about 500 years. Shit, they used to dunk witches, too. If she sank, she was an innocent woman, if she floated she was a witch and they took her to the stake, Win-Win.

Think about it, you cannot torture fanatics enough, they just become more convinced of their philosophies if anything. These people find the concept of blowing themselves and innocent people UP as being perfectly acceptable. How the HELL do you torture the truth out of them? It's virtually USELESS.

Torture only succeeds in making the person being tortured tell the inquisitor what they want to hear, which is NOT necessarily the truth (ergo, 100,000+ men, women and children who were executed for the crime of witchcraft and consorting with the devil). Torture is just fucking stupid and beyond barbaric. Drug their asses up so they're incapable of lying, politely question them, rinse and repeat.

 

[jestro]

Yes, it's torture, no, we shouldn't do it.
I think the US should hold it self to a higher standard than the towel heads. "They'd do it to us" isn't a good enough reason.