thinkprogress.org — During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “The Legal Rights of Guantanamo Detainees” this morning, Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, repeatedly refused to call the hypothetical waterboarding of an American pilot by the Iranian military torture.
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irishjoeDec 12, 2007
It used to be that my country, the United States of America, prided itself on being the most honorable nation on earth never lowering itself to level of our most desperate enemies. Now if we do whatever Iran, a theocracy run by religious nuts, does it's fine. I guess ever since my once proud nation got taken over by religious nuts, they've been modeling themselves on other dictatorial theocracies. I hope one day, we, the American people, will take our country back from the theocrats.
evilamericanDec 12, 2007
Wait a second. How many successful terror attacks have happened in the U.S. since 9/11? Can you give me a cite for the ones that have happened? I missed them.
caferrellDec 12, 2007
Go away EditorResponse. You are a paid troll and the rudest individual on digg. You are not convincing anyone of anything. You are simply an irritant, like body lice.
Closed AccountDec 12, 2007
Including your mother.
hawkeye17Dec 12, 2007
Deep thoughts by Jack Handy!
carlieq25Dec 13, 2007
Well when you put it that way! I mean, if the Iranians do it, then Americans should too!!!
electronbeeDec 15, 2007
Maybe people shouldn't be terrorists?
moulin1May 2, 2008
In principle yes. Premeditated murder is the most severe offense. If you fly into a rage and kill 100 people you have obviously done more damage than if you plotted to kill one person. But you wouldn't be eligible for the death penalty.
moulin1May 2, 2008
I would suggest that waterboarding kills more Americans. Torture isn't used by technically advanced nations more because it is unreliable than because we are so moral. When you convict someone on a false confession extracted by torture you are, by default, freeing the real culprit.
eclecticpassionJul 14, 2008
if if wasn't strongly against the torture of any humans, i would say how about "waterboarding" the guy who says it isn't torture and seeing if he changes his mind after? though through the perspective of bush and co and their many atrocities and perverted torture "techniques" )particularly at abu ghraib but also at GITMO) waterboarding must be considered fairly tame. however it isn't let me assure you..
eclecticpassionJul 14, 2008
yep..in the words of gandhi- "an eye for an eye only results in making the whole world blind" and "hatred will not be solved by hatred- that is the law eternal" it terrifies me what atrocities suposedly civilised human beings are capable of, once they have falsely convinced themselves that their enemy is "sub human" or a "terrorist" in bush's eyes, all muslims and foreigners are terrorists. maybe he should take a look in the mirror..