Comments on: Canada Debates Torture Issue

By: Foxy

Foxy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:13:38 +0000

I totally agree, i read a similar thing over at http://www.whatsyourview.net who outlined the same arguement

By: Fred Stopsky

Fred Stopsky — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:49:57 +0000

Anyone who enters the United States army is told that it is illegal to use torture against the enemy. If you bothered to study interrogation techniques used against the Nazis, you might be surprised that torture was rare even though the Germans used torture. The evidence is overwhelming that WWII interrogators were more successful without torture than the current bunch of incomptents who should be required to read the US Constitution.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:19:48 +0000

I think that we should only use torture for national security, and other things if need be. But even if we stopped using torture the US still looks like crap to other countries so wats the use… and its not like we are the only ones who have broken the genava convention so dont hold that gun to our head!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:16:52 +0000

By: journeyer58

journeyer58 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:45:24 +0000

But, who could be against torture and maiming a prisoner, if that could lead to the US stopping a terrorist attack on Amerikkan soil? I, for one, am against the US sinking to the level of those, in the CIA and any other acronym, for “intelligence” services, who because of Bush and Co.’s legal advisers stating that it is okeedokee for them to behave like mad animals when it comes to “protecting” the US. Are we to believe that the US is in any better security position now than before the attack of September 11, 2001? I should hope that any thinking person would agree that we are less safe for having created the insurgency in Iraq and forcing the Taleban and Al-Qaeda into the hinterlands of Pakistan, where if that nation falls, they will come into possession of true and lethal nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction based upon chemical and biological warfare. Torture serves no imaginable purpose other than to make the torturer feel better about him/her self, because of a position of superiority and strength through being the captor. I, for one, hope that the Canadians stand by their position of naming the US and Israel as practitioners of torture along with the states of Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Russia, North Korea and any other nation that continues to violate the Human Rights Convention of the UN and the Geneva Conventions on Torture and Treatment of Prisoners.