--- In [email protected], "hugheshugo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > This post is for those that are under the impression that > > what goes on at Gitmo or what went on at Abu Ghraib was > > torture. > > > > Go see the following video and then come back here and tell > > us if you still feel what the Americans did was torture (do > > NOT see the video if you are faint of heart because it very > > well may be the most disturbing video you ever see. That was > > certainly the case for me): > > > > I can't look at this as I'm in a public library but the title > tells me all I need to know. But surely beheading isn't torture > it's execution? the idea of torture is to get information out > of people, tricky to confess to anything when your head is any > distance from your body.
Not to mention, if you're beheaded, at least you're spared prolonged, agonizing suffering. > The main question is, how do you know what the CIA are doing? Why > do you think they've been flying people half-way round the world > to countries that freely admit they practise torture? for the air- > miles? > > Setting dogs on people and giving them electric shocks IS > torture, and it's illegal under international law and any sane > moral code. Not to mention waterboarding, "stress positions," sleep deprivation, extremes of temperature...and God knows what else. > Besides, > it doesn't even work if the people are guilty let alone innocent > as most are/were at gitmo & abu graib. I was going to end by > saying the US doesn't get off because the people don't actually > die but plenty have been beaten to death at the hands of > the "coalition of the willing" And many others have been so psychologically traumatized they'll never be normal. > Shame on us. Indeed. The Washington Post has been publishing a series of articles on Dick Cheney's vice presidency; his activities in making torture a tool of U.S. policy are truly sick-making.
