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Originally Posted by Britt Reid
Torture is needed in times of war, especially this type of War on Terrorism. These Muslims we are fighting today are hard headed and won't give up information easy so in order to break them harsh torture is necessary. We would have never got all these Al-Qaeda leaders if it wasn't for torture. If Palin or any other candidate wins in 2016, I hope they will carry on with the harshest torture possible on those type people who want to inflict harm on Americans.
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That's a lie.
Try selling it to the present military and intelligence leaders in Washington and see how far you get.
Al Quieda's main man in the middle east, the guy who first came up with the idea of using our airliners as bombs and was the man in charge of the 9/11 operation, was captured in Iraq and was water boarded 167 times.
He told the CIA everything he knew, but there was nothing the CIA didn't already know in anything he said.
The same thing goes for everyone who was captured and tortured in Guantanamo. Lots of old outdated information, and nothing at all that was unknown. When we eventually learn what torture produced in all the black rendition spots in Europe and elsewhere, I fully expect the results will be no better.
And that's why the military and intelligence have dropped torture as a means of extracting new and vital info.
The CIA learned it was faster and more reliable to call a captured terrorists' mother and let her talk to her child than it was to torture him. The Israelis dropped torture after developing the techniques we used for strenuous discomfort that is just shy of torture because they found it more productive, and the CIA still uses that after they learned how.
Torture simply doesn't provide what intelligence needs. Our technology has outstripped any need for torture, and has been much more reliable for years. Satellites and drones and wiretaps do not lie and are updated in seconds continually.
But thanks for another Savage American brand on our collective butts- like we needed more of them. We are no longer seen as being the good guys by the much of rest of the world. Torture wiped out all the decades of good will we engendered earlier.
Nowadays, a lot of the world see us as nothing but a bigger, richer Pakistan, ready and willing to rip flesh and get down to torturing innocents.
Thanks for your contribution over the net, where most opinions are formed from wold-wide these days.
You are fully entitled to your opinions, but I wish you would think about where you post them. Your statement isn't going away ever now, even if your thoughts change over time.