rawstory.com — The United Nation?s top torture investigator has suggested it is illegal under International law for President Barack Obama to announce that the United States government has no intention of prosecuting low-level CIA officers who carried out torture sanctioned by the Bush Administratio
Apr 18, 2009 View in Crawl 4
vbdonApr 19, 2009
Just waterboard the guy. Liberals say that will keep him from talking anymore.
bobbi21Apr 20, 2009
Just because you don't have lasting physical pain it's not torture? A lot of stuff doesn't have lasting physical pain... If you electrocute someone they feel fine after you stop electrocuting them. From other ppl who've been waterboarded they say it's torture. Sure different ppl have different thresholds for pain and the like but I think any physical contact to a person that's meant to "encourage" them to say something is torture (unless you like, find some hot girl to have sex with them and they blurt out the location of osama during it I guess...). If not torture, it's at least abuse which I would think is illegal as well. Oh and what about rape? Most rape doesn't leave any lasting physical damage. (Some rapists don't even get erect so there isn't even intercourse) So is rape allowed? No lasting physical damage, Homosexuals technically do the act for fun. So rape should be fine as well.
klick37Apr 20, 2009
Also, there is a distinct difference between mass murder/genocide and a limited number of cases that could be dubiously described as torture.
methdwman3Apr 20, 2009
Actually, you are revising history a bit. The second Iraq war may have been technically because of violation of UN resolutions, but in reality, Iraq had been violating the truces that ended the first Gulf war. Who fought the first gulf war? Primarily the US. So the "cease fire" so to speak was really with the US, not that cheesy fake world governing power. If we acted as the UN wanted, we would essentially be a standing army sitting around waiting to do their work, on the US taxpayers' dime.
phaedrynApr 20, 2009
"Guantanamo is closed."It is? Someone aughta tell the folks there they are guarding an empty facility then...New's flash, it's still in operation.
atish505Apr 21, 2009
Bring CIA to the court and try them now. No one is above the law.
secrityApr 23, 2009
In a perfect world, military members would be able to refuse to carry out an order. In the real world, if a military member refused to carry out an illegal order, they would be shat upon and made to wish that he had simply carried out the illegal order. Yes, a military member could be a whistle blower, but it is quite likely that would be worse for him than if he simply refused to carry out the order.Another issue, that has already been mentioned, is that the military lawyers had already made the opinion that the actions were legal.
neolsonJul 22, 2009
How many US leaders do you think learned about international humanitarian law (IHL) and the Geneva Conventions? As a nation party to the Geneva Conventions, we ALL have a responsibility to understand and respect them... but were you ever taught about them in school?There's a petition out-- Protect the Vulnerable: Teach the Geneva Conventions-- found at <a class="user" href="http://bit.ly/RCpetition">http://bit.ly/RCpetition</a> . SIGN THE PETITION if you're interested in ensuring our future leaders understand the Geneva Conventions and what it means to obey IHL.Maybe if we all had a better understanding of IHL they wouldn't have so many articles like this one...