I have to ask, what would happen if we lose a whole city of thousands, people you loved. You later found out Achmed knew about it and because no water boarding allowed , he did not give the information. He smiles at you. To top it off if you are one of the soldiers who loses control and hits him You go to the stockade for 15 years. Right now that is what they are doing laughing at us as they plan the next attack. Knowing full well they are not going to be stopped
I have to ask, what would happen if we lose a whole city of thousands, people you loved. You later found out Achmed knew about it and because no water boarding allowed , he did not give the information. He smiles at you. To top it off if you are one of the soldiers who loses control and hits him You go to the stockade for 15 years. Right now that is what they are doing laughing at us as they plan the next attack. Knowing full well they are not going to stop
This shit should have NEVER happened in this country. EVER... Not for some obscure moral principle, but because the American people do not endorse it. They do not allow it. It was hidden from them. If we were all in favor of waterboarding, I would be okay with going along with it, in deference to our democratic principles, but ONLY if the people allow it, honestly, transparently.
Personally, though... I vote "NO". Torture is unamerican.
@ParrhesiaJoe we use water torture training on our own navy seals, if we use a torture that dont hurt or mame the prisoner and it gets the info needed to save lives then I say use it. What would you use to get info, keep the cupcake off his meal?
@68chargerlover If we want to torture, as a nation, I have no problem with rigging up an electric ball-cuff on the bastards. But the "we want to torture" must be an explicit mandate from the American people...
As flawed as representational government is, it has not authorized our executive to waterboard. The people are against it, so we must not do it.
The alternative is to let the executive have the discretion as to what they can and cannot do. That is tyranny.
@ParrhesiaJoe Then whats the other recourse? do we refuse them cupcakes with their meal if they dont tell us the information on the strikes against our soldiers or where they plan to strike the USA or other countries? there are too many bleeding hearts out there, let the military or CIA or FBI do their jobs. I say if its going to save lives then torture them to get the info.
@68chargerlover This is a question of the extent to which the government can exercise its authority. Questions of this sort must always be guided by the will of the people. Letting the government do what "It judges to be necessary" has always lead to disaster. We not shy from the idea that torture may be justified under some circumstances, but neither can we allow the government to make such decisions in smoke filled room.
We vote no on waterboarding, so we must not waterboard.
@ParrhesiaJoe I bet your the same guy who wants to sue a house owner whos house gets broken into by a burgler and the burgler gets hurts triping over somthing. Give terrorists a hilton to be in and fluff their pillow. Gee I wonder how China or Russia would treat them. Please tell me how do you get info about future terrorist attacks from these people, maybe ask nicely.And I wonder if they make a fuss about how they treat our soldiers they may have hostage,i'm sure they dont torture our guys?
Yeah, we use the same torture tactics.... Yep! We hang and stone women for adultery, arrest and kill homosexuals and sponsor terrorists who decapitate people while chanting God is great.
@BorislavX actually you have sponsored iraque when they were fighting with iran... You may not have killed homosexuals, but there are states in the usa that even in modern days had sodomy laws. I don't wanna claim you are just like iran, but is it really an achievement to be better than iran human rights wise? Most countries should be way beyond that anyway. It's like an adult scientist being proud of knowing more than a baby.
First of all, for those who talk shit about Iran's (Persia) human rights, read up on Cyrus the Great my little friends.
Second I want to point out, USA has to stop criticizing other countries for their actions, besides the fact that USA is a hypocrite, is because not all countries are suppose to be the same... that's the main reason why many people fled to this country... So STFU and fix the problems that are happening here.
The fact is that torture does not work. Look at how we got Saddam, we bonded with local elders in Kirkuk and they gave us the info.Now to your point on women being stoned for sodomy. Well guess wat? ur right those countries are not secular, meaning there is not separation between church and state, thus islamic law=civil law. That is different to wat America is. So when you say that America is justified to use torture, then u are putting them in the same league with the other nations u mentioned
whatever, anybody can think of an instance where it'd be appropriate to harm one person to stop them from harming many. that's such an incredibly simple moral question.
Alright so you say that Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia use torture as interrogation. Well guess wat they do but now so does the U.S., they just call it enhanced interrogations. So wtf they are doing the same things as America and suddenly they are the bad guys. Another thing is that America trys to be the good guy, the one with "higher ethical standards." I don't know how torture fits into that but the fact is that if torture is so effective, y don't we have Bin laden yet?
We now are no longer the moral authority on the matter, which is why we should never have done it in the first place. It's up to someone else to condemn waterboarding now. Even if we don't do it "now," it's still far too recent for the US to be in the driver's seat on this.
Hang on hang on - America is often hypocritical with their foreign policy. For example its ok to have missiles in Turkey and Europe (during the cold war) but the USSR cant have anything near America (Cuban missile crisis). Its ok for America to illegally invade countries, but Russia can't even though they were asked to help. Its ok for the US to kill 100,000s of innocent people (Vietnam and Iraq etc etc) using inhumane weapons but 9/11 is the real crime??!!?!
Are you all stupids or something? It doesn't matter witch torture is less or more painfull, it's torture and should be banned. That's it. You consider an action wrong and then you do the same? Spock would say that's not logic...
Many of these POW's we have in custody live a better life, are fed better, in our prison camps than they were as "soldiers" fighting for groups like Al Queda. SO no I am sorry, by comparison, its NOT true torture!
All of these things have been experienced by US POW's since WWI all the way up to Vietnam. Several civilian hostages experienced some of these things in places like Syria and Iraq as recently as a year ago or so. Chinese government still does some of these things to their own people, Saddam did these things to his own people, Iran does these things to its own people. Water boarding is a fucking cake walk by comparison.
"Water boarding is a fucking cake walk by comparison."
I somewhat agree.
BUT ITS STILL TORTURE !
"The lesser of two evils principle is today most commonly used in reference to electoral politics, particularly in Western nations, and perhaps in the United States more than anywhere else." Wikipedia
Im from Canada and I agree that water boarding is more like very unpleasant treatment. At worst its soft torture. All your body parts stay attached to you so it aint that bad. When I hear torture, I think about cutting fingers, letting someone bleed while filling him with blood or beating someone with a pipe or a whip.
Anal rape, that's torture, having your fingernails ripped out one by one, that's torture, being exposed to dangerous and or lethal chemicals, that's torture, being infected with potentially deadly diseases, that's torture, having your skin slowly sliced away from various parts of your body, that's torture, having your balls attached to a battery, that's torture.
so what does your experience with waterboarding have to do with anything? Just cuase you went through it doesn't mean your opinion is fact. It IS torture, regardless what you say, or what you thought about it as it was happening to you.
Water boarding is not torture, I have experienced it when I was in Air Force ROTC! We had an option to experience interrogation techniques and almost all of us chose to do it!
.. oh, but we can't look back .. we must turn the page .. let's just forget about the nice Ahmadenejad 'administration' torturing .. after all, we must look forward and not back
most of the iran torture claims arnt any evidence of institutionalised torture in iran which iran does not allow but rare circumstantial occasions usuall by irreguler forces
id still be scepticle of torture claims made though its true those detained recently have been treated quiet roghly a lot of them
Seriously the US is as hypocritical as they are democratic. Like words can't express the degree of hypocracy.
Really think they need to take the advisory stand point rather then the authoritive cause they will never be taken seriously when actions differ from their words.
These protests aren't going to change anything! Ahmadinjad is still in power and and the ayatollah is still the true and supreme leader! This mousvi guy needs to concede defeat and end this madness! All the lives that were lost are all because of him!!!
well what are they gonna di? tell me? they don't have any weapons of any kind and they basically have shit compared to the noble Besij and the Heroic security forces. these troopers risked there lives because they know that the Ahmadinjad Govt and the Ayatollah are the real leaders of Iran!!! Mohsvi is the one who started this buy calling for mass protests on the streets when he clearly lost!!
I mean a purge, hang the Ayatollahs, the high ranking members of the Police, the revolutionary guards and the Basij. You round them up, then you give them a 15minutes long ''trail'' and you send them before the firing squads.
evry fukin country uses torture tactics on pisoners etc. tha only thing is that if u do it dont get caught but like evry country that has a power gets caught bcuz they r showing u they caant run their own fukin country
The issue is that Iran is doing it not as a means to get intelligence to hopefully save people's lives but to oppress it's own people.
You see you just don't get it.
By getting people to confess things that never happened is a way for the present government to justify their killing people who want to change the country by peaceful methods It's the killing of these individuals that is wrong not the waterboarding..
I love how Cenk makes it seem like they only waterboard over there. That's just a warmup. They've executed people on camera by chopping their heads off just to prove some point to us. Waterboarding is nothing compared to everything else that's ever been used ever.
Set aside what you believe the endall objective was during the Bush Era and in Iran, the result was still the same: false info was obtained, and the Bush admin., despite being aware that the info was fake, associated Iraq with 9/11.
Close.. Bush used it to get false confessions as well so he could justify attacking Iraq. Security interest my ass. It was about something else all over. They wanted to attack Saddam even before 9/11, never forget that detail.
The intelligence on how much a threat he was, was not correct butt that intelligence did not come by using waterboarding.
If you remember the reason people gave for their opposition to waterboarding was that it was torture and therefore inhumane not the fact these people were being interrogated.
In Iran even Interrogating these people.would have been wrong.
The only thing they did was to try to win an election.
Sure he was a mad man, but not a threat to anyone but his own people.
Torture in American prisons happened before the invasion into Iraq and Bush did make the link between 9/11 and Iraq based on intelligence obtained from a detainee. Just google "torture timeline".
The reason was not just the fact it was inhumane, but also damaging to the US rep. in the world and that it isn't working. Also that wrong intelligence was obtained on purpose and that the subjects have never been charged with a crime
No silly, I'm Iranian myself. My comment was in response to another Iranian who said waterboarding is the least of Iran's problems and that the Americans should not compare: I said: They (Americans) need to fix their government (American government) too, if only by a few inches in comparison to the miles and miles ours (Iranian government) has to go.
This is ridiculous, waterboarding is soft. The Iranians already fired live rounds at their own citizens. They threw some off bridges, they broke bones with clubs. So how is water boarding revelant compared to gunning down protesters?
The Iranian protester had it coming anyway. They were dumb to think that they could achieve change in a non violent process. They should have organized death squads in the first day of the uprising. They could have executed most members of the current ruling elite and took over the country.
Isn't that strange that all those successful ar quasi-successful neolib projects (like DailyKos, HuffPost, Young Tits) turn out to be really pro-war after all?
HuffPost is the main propaganda post in the case of supporting the CIA-sponsored Iranian riots, they announce a new offensive in Afghanistan with so much fanfare, etc.
I don't have to talk about other neolibs. The case is obvious.
"they've already declared water boarding fun and fantastic..." Lol, you guys.
"We thought them a lot about democracy."
I always found it particularly amusing to listen to the mullaah's call the American government evil and vice versa, and then watch both sides do the same things.
Where i come from psycho/social abuse is the torture of choice. They could completely ruin a child without ever leaving a single mark or breaking a single bone. RIP MJ.
No it would not, do you really think the russian will give a shit if we tell them fist. We just need to give them a geopolitical compensation. Nobody gives a shit about the people of Iran.
Well I'd rather be waterboarded if they weren't going to kill me and just torture me...Unless they were going to hold me for years and just keep doing it then just kill me
The point is not that Iran is using Waterboarding, it's that the US cant morally say a damn thing to stop them, because the US also used waterboarding.
The only thing that could make this situation more delicious is if an American was waterboarded in Iran. Ohhhhh I can feel myself getting hard just imagining that media shitstorm. The government would have NO idea which way to go with that.
They probably did (or are doing) with those British reporters they're still holding. Media's keeping nice and quiet about that, gotta wonder why they're not going nuts speculating about that like they usually do.
whatever great scientific and technological advancements the people of Iran have made are overshadowed by the archaeic ignorance and duplicity of its "elected" officials who opt only for self gain and spoils.
i'm sure some intelligence agencies have the secret go ahead from obama to do this stuff where people dont know it. obama made a show to convince the rest of the world but everyone else knows this.
Well they invaded Iraq, and used child soldiers while doing so. They are a theocracy, and they have made at least two violent, brutal crackdowns against peaceful protesters.
u liberal scum sound so stupid when u claim the U.S. is the moral highground in the world. America is full of crime, greed, corruption, prejudice, racism, prostitution, drug addicts, violence, hate, pornography, discrimination and so on. u libs only seem to apply this high moral code to the conduct of the military. everyone else can have no standards.
Whose fault do you think the crime greed and corruption is a fault of?
Furtherore liberals aren't FOR all the crime and greed etc... Most of the prejudices and racism is from conservatives that don't want to break from their traditions. My cousin voted for McCain because Obama was black. SHe liked Obama's policies more.
It's not that liberals don't like standards it's that we believe people should be adult enough to make their own decisions without being baby sat all the time by the government
Forget that torture doesn't work for gathering relevant information. Forget that torture makes others hate us and is counterproductive to America's goals. Forget that torturing others makes our enemies want to torture our people. The number one reason not to torture is that it is immoral and wrong! This is the only reason necessary not to torture. We are supposed to have a code of honor in this country, I don't know what happened to it. Happy 4th of fucking July.
First of all, using the expression "forget about" in that context doesn't deny the importance of those things, it merely denotes their subordinate nature to the larger point I was making. Second, no, that is not why they are immoral and wrong. We don't define morality based on utility, potential goals, or the possibility of revenge. Morality is based on our collective feelings towards actions that are aimed at promoting "good" over "evil." It is more abstract than the things I listed.
You can't just say "that's immoral" and be done with it. It is important to ask why it is immoral. That is why I don't agree with "the number one reason not to torture is that it is immoral and wrong!"
I asked you to think about it and all you can come up with is "you don't get it?" Really, you should try harder because you are seriously off base here. Torture isn't "immoral" because it produces bad information, a proper adjective here may be "inefficient." Torture isn't "immoral" because it makes our enemies angry and they will want revenge, the adjective here may be "counterproductive." Torture IS "immoral" because it inflicts sadistic pain upon helpless people, for example. Get it?
1. we still do it, in bagram airbase in iraq and we pay our allies and mercinaries to do it for us.
2. if the iranians had gun rights like we do there revolution would have had a bite to go with its bark. you cant push over a armed population like there goverment did.
He's crazy..how dare he compare us to Iran are you f'n kidding me? Waterboarding in Iran, honey, that's if your shit lucky ,I should know, I'll put you on the phone with one of my iranian cousins or relatives ...what a stretch
Calm down my friend, we all know waterboarding is what they do to prisoners in Iran when they want to give them fun times. We have read the reports on all the other horrors visited upon people in those torture chambers.
The point TYT is making is about the irony that America can't object to this particular method of torture for obvious reasons. They need to fix their government too, if only by a few inches in comparison to the miles and miles ours has to go.
Iran has lured much from the Bush administration; Bad elections, Tourcher, and when a democrat starts talking to you, you plug your ears as yell "I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOUR EVIL AND ALWAYS WRONG, I'M ALWAYS RIGHT AND JUST, NAN NAN NAN I CANT HEAR YOU!!!"
Our freedom to waterboard them, and nuke them, and bomb them, and invade their countries, and occupy thir cities, and kill their children in their own land.
I hope you post with irony, and understand that the left have no different an agenda... because if you don't then *ahhh* bless your a politically naive sucker.. when america and the west and world in general get out of this left/right perspective then maybe we can move forward..
True. When you consider that companies like Pepsico and Tyson Foods and IBM are no small participants in the Defense Contracts game, you will begin to understand that the Military-Industrial Complex which Pres. Eisenhower warned America against back in '61 is as powerful or more than Eis. feared.
Considering General E's background, very scary. It bothers me a great deal that the avg. Am. has no clue what a huge part the Am. Mil.-Ind.Complex has in our economy. Amer. IS a HUGE purveyor of WAR.
The obvious implication is HOW does a country claim to be the Defendor of Freedom and Justice when that country's revenue is largely dependant on WAR and death and destruction around the world?
If the US really wants a peaceful World, then we need to stop profiting from it!
Come on, we tell them they can't have nuclear power, and yet not only do we have more nukes than the rest of the world combined, but we're the only ones that used them on civilians.
:laughs: The casualty figures for US deaths alone,in an invasion of Japan, were estimated to be 1 million. You bringing up Hiroshima and Nagasaki show me that you have a very one sided view of the subject. We don't tell them they can't have nuclear power, we discourage nuclear weapons production. I am no fan of nukes but to point a condemning finger to the past shows that you have little grasp of real world geopolitics.
well put fellows. and now i am wondering what the neocons have to say about iran waterboarding people..though i'm thinking they'd like to not say anything at all.
"So waterboard the kids for fun, it's all the rage - and be a born again american resistance is the game"
SmashtheCmachine 6 months ago
I have to ask, what would happen if we lose a whole city of thousands, people you loved. You later found out Achmed knew about it and because no water boarding allowed , he did not give the information. He smiles at you. To top it off if you are one of the soldiers who loses control and hits him You go to the stockade for 15 years. Right now that is what they are doing laughing at us as they plan the next attack. Knowing full well they are not going to be stopped
joseagosto1 1 year ago
I have to ask, what would happen if we lose a whole city of thousands, people you loved. You later found out Achmed knew about it and because no water boarding allowed , he did not give the information. He smiles at you. To top it off if you are one of the soldiers who loses control and hits him You go to the stockade for 15 years. Right now that is what they are doing laughing at us as they plan the next attack. Knowing full well they are not going to stop
joseagosto1 1 year ago
It doesn't matter what they do. Not one bit.
This shit should have NEVER happened in this country. EVER... Not for some obscure moral principle, but because the American people do not endorse it. They do not allow it. It was hidden from them. If we were all in favor of waterboarding, I would be okay with going along with it, in deference to our democratic principles, but ONLY if the people allow it, honestly, transparently.
Personally, though... I vote "NO". Torture is unamerican.
ParrhesiaJoe 1 year ago
@ParrhesiaJoe we use water torture training on our own navy seals, if we use a torture that dont hurt or mame the prisoner and it gets the info needed to save lives then I say use it. What would you use to get info, keep the cupcake off his meal?
68chargerlover 1 year ago
@68chargerlover If we want to torture, as a nation, I have no problem with rigging up an electric ball-cuff on the bastards. But the "we want to torture" must be an explicit mandate from the American people...
As flawed as representational government is, it has not authorized our executive to waterboard. The people are against it, so we must not do it.
The alternative is to let the executive have the discretion as to what they can and cannot do. That is tyranny.
ParrhesiaJoe 1 year ago
@ParrhesiaJoe Then whats the other recourse? do we refuse them cupcakes with their meal if they dont tell us the information on the strikes against our soldiers or where they plan to strike the USA or other countries? there are too many bleeding hearts out there, let the military or CIA or FBI do their jobs. I say if its going to save lives then torture them to get the info.
68chargerlover 1 year ago
@68chargerlover This is a question of the extent to which the government can exercise its authority. Questions of this sort must always be guided by the will of the people. Letting the government do what "It judges to be necessary" has always lead to disaster. We not shy from the idea that torture may be justified under some circumstances, but neither can we allow the government to make such decisions in smoke filled room.
We vote no on waterboarding, so we must not waterboard.
ParrhesiaJoe 1 year ago
@ParrhesiaJoe I bet your the same guy who wants to sue a house owner whos house gets broken into by a burgler and the burgler gets hurts triping over somthing. Give terrorists a hilton to be in and fluff their pillow. Gee I wonder how China or Russia would treat them. Please tell me how do you get info about future terrorist attacks from these people, maybe ask nicely.And I wonder if they make a fuss about how they treat our soldiers they may have hostage,i'm sure they dont torture our guys?
68chargerlover 1 year ago
Yeah, we use the same torture tactics.... Yep! We hang and stone women for adultery, arrest and kill homosexuals and sponsor terrorists who decapitate people while chanting God is great.
Yes, we are just like Iran!
You guys are loons.
BorislavX 1 year ago
@BorislavX actually you have sponsored iraque when they were fighting with iran... You may not have killed homosexuals, but there are states in the usa that even in modern days had sodomy laws. I don't wanna claim you are just like iran, but is it really an achievement to be better than iran human rights wise? Most countries should be way beyond that anyway. It's like an adult scientist being proud of knowing more than a baby.
Chaaarge 1 year ago
First of all, for those who talk shit about Iran's (Persia) human rights, read up on Cyrus the Great my little friends.
Second I want to point out, USA has to stop criticizing other countries for their actions, besides the fact that USA is a hypocrite, is because not all countries are suppose to be the same... that's the main reason why many people fled to this country... So STFU and fix the problems that are happening here.
arzama1 1 year ago
Fun & fantastic..lol
But yea it's terrible no matter who does it to who...m
alijamali7 2 years ago
Talk about torture?
What about ABU GRAHIB, GUANTANAMO AND LITHUANIA????
Herrmistermonsieur 2 years ago
fuck usa
Darkmoon0999 2 years ago
The fact is that torture does not work. Look at how we got Saddam, we bonded with local elders in Kirkuk and they gave us the info.Now to your point on women being stoned for sodomy. Well guess wat? ur right those countries are not secular, meaning there is not separation between church and state, thus islamic law=civil law. That is different to wat America is. So when you say that America is justified to use torture, then u are putting them in the same league with the other nations u mentioned
facebook36 2 years ago
whatever, anybody can think of an instance where it'd be appropriate to harm one person to stop them from harming many. that's such an incredibly simple moral question.
Tripo1iSamson 2 years ago
Alright so you say that Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia use torture as interrogation. Well guess wat they do but now so does the U.S., they just call it enhanced interrogations. So wtf they are doing the same things as America and suddenly they are the bad guys. Another thing is that America trys to be the good guy, the one with "higher ethical standards." I don't know how torture fits into that but the fact is that if torture is so effective, y don't we have Bin laden yet?
facebook36 2 years ago
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wtf Turk? are you that naive?
Iran is a despotic Islamic republic - like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
And they don't call it torture - it's "interrogation."
Gitmo is a freakin Four Seasons compared to the chambers in Tehran.
They pick women off the street and stone them for "sodomy" (homosexuality), Saudi Arabia does the same but far more often.
The USA is not the pinnacle of torture and never has been. Most countries use torture for punishment, we use it to get information.
Wake up, turk!
ImNeilPatrickHarris 2 years ago
You know, they dont put bamboo under their nails. There is legal torture which is so horrible, it's beyond belief.
9ORGAZMO6 2 years ago
We now are no longer the moral authority on the matter, which is why we should never have done it in the first place. It's up to someone else to condemn waterboarding now. Even if we don't do it "now," it's still far too recent for the US to be in the driver's seat on this.
dEdGrimley 2 years ago 2
Hang on hang on - America is often hypocritical with their foreign policy. For example its ok to have missiles in Turkey and Europe (during the cold war) but the USSR cant have anything near America (Cuban missile crisis). Its ok for America to illegally invade countries, but Russia can't even though they were asked to help. Its ok for the US to kill 100,000s of innocent people (Vietnam and Iraq etc etc) using inhumane weapons but 9/11 is the real crime??!!?!
pubuman 2 years ago 18
@pubuman America is also the only country to actually use WMDs and they used it on civilians.
urantivirus 1 year ago
@pubuman well said.
iHacksorzz 7 months ago
Are you all stupids or something? It doesn't matter witch torture is less or more painfull, it's torture and should be banned. That's it. You consider an action wrong and then you do the same? Spock would say that's not logic...
rafaeldoria 2 years ago 19
Many of these POW's we have in custody live a better life, are fed better, in our prison camps than they were as "soldiers" fighting for groups like Al Queda. SO no I am sorry, by comparison, its NOT true torture!
18mym81 2 years ago 3
All of these things have been experienced by US POW's since WWI all the way up to Vietnam. Several civilian hostages experienced some of these things in places like Syria and Iraq as recently as a year ago or so. Chinese government still does some of these things to their own people, Saddam did these things to his own people, Iran does these things to its own people. Water boarding is a fucking cake walk by comparison.
18mym81 2 years ago 2
"Water boarding is a fucking cake walk by comparison."
I somewhat agree.
BUT ITS STILL TORTURE !
"The lesser of two evils principle is today most commonly used in reference to electoral politics, particularly in Western nations, and perhaps in the United States more than anywhere else." Wikipedia
let me guess, your from the US, right ?
rapzeh4 2 years ago
Im from Canada and I agree that water boarding is more like very unpleasant treatment. At worst its soft torture. All your body parts stay attached to you so it aint that bad. When I hear torture, I think about cutting fingers, letting someone bleed while filling him with blood or beating someone with a pipe or a whip.
tommysch 2 years ago
So slowly killing someone (which is what water boarding is) isn't torture?
yellowkrux 2 years ago
Not if America does it.. :)
ViLLiSTa 2 years ago 3
The only problem with the american waterboarding thing is that we knew about it.
tommysch 2 years ago
Anal rape, that's torture, having your fingernails ripped out one by one, that's torture, being exposed to dangerous and or lethal chemicals, that's torture, being infected with potentially deadly diseases, that's torture, having your skin slowly sliced away from various parts of your body, that's torture, having your balls attached to a battery, that's torture.
18mym81 2 years ago
Waterboarding, that's torture.
Ramel34 2 years ago
And of course, Cheney and all the cronies in the Bush administrators are going to stand against it.
Savior20061 2 years ago
@ 18mym81
so what does your experience with waterboarding have to do with anything? Just cuase you went through it doesn't mean your opinion is fact. It IS torture, regardless what you say, or what you thought about it as it was happening to you.
philhuddy 2 years ago 2
Water boarding is not torture, I have experienced it when I was in Air Force ROTC! We had an option to experience interrogation techniques and almost all of us chose to do it!
18mym81 2 years ago
hmmmmm I love the smell of bullshit in the morning.
evilreligion 2 years ago
Yeah, say that after the 200th time.
aquaknot 2 years ago
Hey, did you know?! All my friends volunteered to have our nails ripped out with steak knives! I guess it's not torture!
Savior20061 2 years ago
How can this be verified? How do we know this isn't a CIA agent? Some random person can make this up... TYT I thought you were better then this..
Reqrezentin 2 years ago
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Filthy left wing cunts...
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ameshkin69 2 years ago
water boarding compared to what iran regime does in its prisons is a joke!
Freedom9531 2 years ago
Palin was the choice that they gave me, Palin was the choice that they gave me XD
blazed85 2 years ago
id vote palin if she'll blow me
K3v1n74n 2 years ago
Waterboarding is a water sport
motelcalifornia 2 years ago
I love it.
The Wide World of Water Boarding
motelcalifornia 2 years ago
.. oh, but we can't look back .. we must turn the page .. let's just forget about the nice Ahmadenejad 'administration' torturing .. after all, we must look forward and not back
.. (hahrum!!)
milkgodnl 2 years ago 2
most of the iran torture claims arnt any evidence of institutionalised torture in iran which iran does not allow but rare circumstantial occasions usuall by irreguler forces
id still be scepticle of torture claims made though its true those detained recently have been treated quiet roghly a lot of them
StrangerThenRedz 2 years ago
ROFL, you used "then" instead of "than" in your own nick!
ArranoGris 2 years ago
Seriously the US is as hypocritical as they are democratic. Like words can't express the degree of hypocracy.
Really think they need to take the advisory stand point rather then the authoritive cause they will never be taken seriously when actions differ from their words.
Jehanam 2 years ago
the guy on the right is an ass
i3like3punane 2 years ago
These protests aren't going to change anything! Ahmadinjad is still in power and and the ayatollah is still the true and supreme leader! This mousvi guy needs to concede defeat and end this madness! All the lives that were lost are all because of him!!!
burcoman990 2 years ago
You dont know what you are saying....
This is not about Mohsavi, he was just a spark that the people needed.
The real madness is the currect Iranian government. I am Iranian so i know what im saying.
PLUS you just dont concede defeat when lives have already been lost. Thats a big slap in the face to the families of lost loved ones.
Conceding defeat and giving up is the easy route and it is how governments of the world keep their people in check...
Jehanam 2 years ago
well what are they gonna di? tell me? they don't have any weapons of any kind and they basically have shit compared to the noble Besij and the Heroic security forces. these troopers risked there lives because they know that the Ahmadinjad Govt and the Ayatollah are the real leaders of Iran!!! Mohsvi is the one who started this buy calling for mass protests on the streets when he clearly lost!!
burcoman990 2 years ago
You wont win without a civil war, or at least sharp and decisive killing spree of the current leadership.
tommysch 2 years ago
What are you saying, tommysch? Exactly what? Be specific!
wdgeo 2 years ago
I mean a purge, hang the Ayatollahs, the high ranking members of the Police, the revolutionary guards and the Basij. You round them up, then you give them a 15minutes long ''trail'' and you send them before the firing squads.
tommysch 2 years ago
Tommysch could u make it at all more obvious ur a trigger happy neocon?
Seriously does even the slightest glimmer of rationality even cross your mind?
I wont dignify your comment with even a response cause I know you will have none of it.
God... Its always the conservatives from different nations that fight one another.
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ameshkin69 2 years ago
don't worry america, the Kingdom will hold thm accountable, if we had a good prime minister!!!
SFSylvester 2 years ago
evry fukin country uses torture tactics on pisoners etc. tha only thing is that if u do it dont get caught but like evry country that has a power gets caught bcuz they r showing u they caant run their own fukin country
furionmmr 2 years ago
13 spelling mistakes... How can we take your comment seriously?
a3k0ln24s 2 years ago 3
MAYBE BY SUCKING ON A COCK
furionmmr 2 years ago
no news there, they only been trained by CIA...
ArghusDae 2 years ago
US used and uses many other torture methods also, so in a way americans are quite more advanced in this field.
BeyondWrittenWords 2 years ago 2
You're not looking at the total picture.
The issue isn't waterboarding.
The issue is that Iran is doing it not as a means to get intelligence to hopefully save people's lives but to oppress it's own people.
You see you just don't get it.
By getting people to confess things that never happened is a way for the present government to justify their killing people who want to change the country by peaceful methods It's the killing of these individuals that is wrong not the waterboarding..
bornbillsmith 2 years ago
lol so true.
dubsu 2 years ago
I love how Cenk makes it seem like they only waterboard over there. That's just a warmup. They've executed people on camera by chopping their heads off just to prove some point to us. Waterboarding is nothing compared to everything else that's ever been used ever.
gamingeagle19 2 years ago
and america has electricuted people to death.
hurataimad 2 years ago
It's not just that.
There is a connection between the waterboarding and the actions you describe.
They get people to confess to crimes they didn't commit and then use that as justification to get rid of their opposition in the ways you describe.
Bush used it as a means to get intelligence to make this country safe from attack.
Whether it worked is a different issue.
The point is Bush was trying to save lives and in Iran they were using it to kill people.
bornbillsmith 2 years ago
Set aside what you believe the endall objective was during the Bush Era and in Iran, the result was still the same: false info was obtained, and the Bush admin., despite being aware that the info was fake, associated Iraq with 9/11.
chocopug14 2 years ago
Close.. Bush used it to get false confessions as well so he could justify attacking Iraq. Security interest my ass. It was about something else all over. They wanted to attack Saddam even before 9/11, never forget that detail.
P1ranh4 2 years ago
Saddam was a mad man and everyone knew that.
The intelligence on how much a threat he was, was not correct butt that intelligence did not come by using waterboarding.
If you remember the reason people gave for their opposition to waterboarding was that it was torture and therefore inhumane not the fact these people were being interrogated.
In Iran even Interrogating these people.would have been wrong.
The only thing they did was to try to win an election.
bornbillsmith 2 years ago
Sure he was a mad man, but not a threat to anyone but his own people.
Torture in American prisons happened before the invasion into Iraq and Bush did make the link between 9/11 and Iraq based on intelligence obtained from a detainee. Just google "torture timeline".
The reason was not just the fact it was inhumane, but also damaging to the US rep. in the world and that it isn't working. Also that wrong intelligence was obtained on purpose and that the subjects have never been charged with a crime
P1ranh4 2 years ago
it isnt????!
bigbossman999 2 years ago
IRAN IS A MESS
gosuns08 2 years ago
People have been making this point since the begining... heck they've been making it since before they intiated these laws on torture 60 years ago.
Douglas1102 2 years ago
Tell me you're kidding. Iran only has need for a tiny little bit of government reform and we need "miles and miles"?
What planet are you on?
spike8088 2 years ago
I'm sorry to answer that question we have to live in the same universe, not just the same planet
Tranzphonic 2 years ago
No silly, I'm Iranian myself. My comment was in response to another Iranian who said waterboarding is the least of Iran's problems and that the Americans should not compare: I said: They (Americans) need to fix their government (American government) too, if only by a few inches in comparison to the miles and miles ours (Iranian government) has to go.
lacountess 2 years ago
Of course America can vindicate Iran for torturing... all you have to do is put the Americans that tortured prisoners on trial.
Douglas1102 2 years ago
like should have happened in the first place.
clarkmt 2 years ago
Any country who says, "We don't torture" are liars and hypocrites. I'm not saying whether it's right or wrong.
DoctorCataclysm 2 years ago
This is ridiculous, waterboarding is soft. The Iranians already fired live rounds at their own citizens. They threw some off bridges, they broke bones with clubs. So how is water boarding revelant compared to gunning down protesters?
tommysch 2 years ago
It's very relevant, but if you don't already see it you never will and it's a waste of time explaining it to you.
shadowcnidarian 2 years ago
The Iranian protester had it coming anyway. They were dumb to think that they could achieve change in a non violent process. They should have organized death squads in the first day of the uprising. They could have executed most members of the current ruling elite and took over the country.
tommysch 2 years ago
You should go over there and teach them how it's done.
shadowcnidarian 2 years ago
Isn't that strange that all those successful ar quasi-successful neolib projects (like DailyKos, HuffPost, Young Tits) turn out to be really pro-war after all?
HuffPost is the main propaganda post in the case of supporting the CIA-sponsored Iranian riots, they announce a new offensive in Afghanistan with so much fanfare, etc.
I don't have to talk about other neolibs. The case is obvious.
FormerlyKnownAsNopez 2 years ago
Anybody in his right mind is pro-war... Im not a liberal btw.
tommysch 2 years ago
Yeah... Iran tortures as we do...:)
I'm starting to believe that as I believe what that CIA stooge Nico Pitney says... :)
Neocons say: let's bomb Iran, let's torture enemies.
Neolibs say: ehhh, they torture, too... Let's have CIA orchestrate regime change.
That's how the machine works.
FormerlyKnownAsNopez 2 years ago
"they've already declared water boarding fun and fantastic..." Lol, you guys.
"We thought them a lot about democracy."
I always found it particularly amusing to listen to the mullaah's call the American government evil and vice versa, and then watch both sides do the same things.
lacountess 2 years ago
i'm 16 and i just really want to know
what is WATERBOARDING?
someone please reply :)
skyyue1718 2 years ago
Waterboarding is when they plug your nose, and pour water down your mouth. You get a feeling of drowning, but much worse.
jax252000 2 years ago
it's restraining someone, placing a cloth over their face and pouring water over the cloth
they tried it on a few fbi agents and they lasted 18 seconds tops, the known record is 2 minutes
alwinovich 2 years ago 4
when u take a shower next time put your face direct on the water pouring down and try to hold ure breathing. should be an example of waterboarding...
h0tie 2 years ago
Cenk is right on in this video.
Khazule 2 years ago
Only powerhungry nations can trick themselves into believing water is better used to torture people than help them.
abortabraham 2 years ago 6
word life!
beatbrain 2 years ago
I dig your comment. Is it a quote.. if so by whom?
Smartassawhip 2 years ago
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nesbittxj 2 years ago
Where i come from psycho/social abuse is the torture of choice. They could completely ruin a child without ever leaving a single mark or breaking a single bone. RIP MJ.
hypnofan35 2 years ago
iran does not give a shit
Fishmongerabc123 2 years ago
0:55 - Exactly! Obama is such a wimp!
MrDeppness 2 years ago
we should drop a big ass bomb on their ass like we did too japan.....
ZAHTAE33 2 years ago
Yeah, because that wouldn't have horrible consequences =P
WildSide86 2 years ago
No it would not, do you really think the russian will give a shit if we tell them fist. We just need to give them a geopolitical compensation. Nobody gives a shit about the people of Iran.
tommysch 2 years ago
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i agree kill the terrorists,kill the kids eventually going to turn into terrorists and kill the women who are spawning the little terrorist bastards
xiReviewiStuffx 2 years ago
Sounds like you're a bit of a terrorist yourself. Care to volunteer to get bombed? :D
megamarsvin 2 years ago
yeah like all the republicans skin heads and nazis, who shoot cops, and doctors
goldgrif 2 years ago
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donottake 2 years ago
like bush and cheney was so good, cheney started a war for haliburton
goldgrif 2 years ago
Don't worry about the waterboarding, worry about the BEHEADING and STONING TO DEATH going on in Iran.
dlcapewe 2 years ago
I'd rather have a quick beheading then a slow waterboarding though if I was in that situation.
whatdoyouwantandwhy 2 years ago
Well I'd rather be waterboarded if they weren't going to kill me and just torture me...Unless they were going to hold me for years and just keep doing it then just kill me
seestickglue232 2 years ago
The point is not that Iran is using Waterboarding, it's that the US cant morally say a damn thing to stop them, because the US also used waterboarding.
The only thing that could make this situation more delicious is if an American was waterboarded in Iran. Ohhhhh I can feel myself getting hard just imagining that media shitstorm. The government would have NO idea which way to go with that.
Etimos 2 years ago
They probably did (or are doing) with those British reporters they're still holding. Media's keeping nice and quiet about that, gotta wonder why they're not going nuts speculating about that like they usually do.
megamarsvin 2 years ago
whatever great scientific and technological advancements the people of Iran have made are overshadowed by the archaeic ignorance and duplicity of its "elected" officials who opt only for self gain and spoils.
America can be viewed in the same light.
Seabound117 2 years ago 2
i'm sure some intelligence agencies have the secret go ahead from obama to do this stuff where people dont know it. obama made a show to convince the rest of the world but everyone else knows this.
harshvgaus 2 years ago
America steeps to a new low, drags down a innocent country which has nothing to do with torture down with it..
Fucktards
Reqrezentin 2 years ago
Iran is hardly innocent.
ssdght 2 years ago
Alright, explain to me what Iran has done wrong.
Reqrezentin 2 years ago
Well they invaded Iraq, and used child soldiers while doing so. They are a theocracy, and they have made at least two violent, brutal crackdowns against peaceful protesters.
ssdght 2 years ago
@ssdght: iraq invaded iran.
spoolworm 2 years ago
Sorry, I apologize, I read incorrectly.
ssdght 2 years ago
Hahahaha, what do we have hear a dumb fuck who doesn't even know his history.
Iraq invaded Iran with the help and encouragement of the US. No one used child soldiers, they volunteered which any 13 year old patriot would do.
No one cracked down on peaceful protests, the protesters were the ones who started targeting their surroundings because they weren't heard..
Fucking idiot.
Reqrezentin 2 years ago
america is failing, true story
BalooDumptruck 2 years ago 2
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u liberal scum sound so stupid when u claim the U.S. is the moral highground in the world. America is full of crime, greed, corruption, prejudice, racism, prostitution, drug addicts, violence, hate, pornography, discrimination and so on. u libs only seem to apply this high moral code to the conduct of the military. everyone else can have no standards.
friction00815 2 years ago
for once i agree with you but who is the moral highground in the world
beeohhski 2 years ago
Wow i think you just described every single fucking country in the world.
HeartlessLiberal 2 years ago
Whose fault do you think the crime greed and corruption is a fault of?
Furtherore liberals aren't FOR all the crime and greed etc... Most of the prejudices and racism is from conservatives that don't want to break from their traditions. My cousin voted for McCain because Obama was black. SHe liked Obama's policies more.
It's not that liberals don't like standards it's that we believe people should be adult enough to make their own decisions without being baby sat all the time by the government
makaisenki 2 years ago 2
Whenever you say the word "waterboarding" I suffocate and my eyes water.
DrQuijano 2 years ago
Forget that torture doesn't work for gathering relevant information. Forget that torture makes others hate us and is counterproductive to America's goals. Forget that torturing others makes our enemies want to torture our people. The number one reason not to torture is that it is immoral and wrong! This is the only reason necessary not to torture. We are supposed to have a code of honor in this country, I don't know what happened to it. Happy 4th of fucking July.
HungryNomadicLion 2 years ago 2
It's immoral and wrong because of all the things that you just said "forget" about.
DelicateWolverine 2 years ago
First of all, using the expression "forget about" in that context doesn't deny the importance of those things, it merely denotes their subordinate nature to the larger point I was making. Second, no, that is not why they are immoral and wrong. We don't define morality based on utility, potential goals, or the possibility of revenge. Morality is based on our collective feelings towards actions that are aimed at promoting "good" over "evil." It is more abstract than the things I listed.
HungryNomadicLion 2 years ago
You can't just say "that's immoral" and be done with it. It is important to ask why it is immoral. That is why I don't agree with "the number one reason not to torture is that it is immoral and wrong!"
DelicateWolverine 2 years ago
Really? Thanks pal. Go think about it and get back to me.
HungryNomadicLion 2 years ago
...
You don't get it.
DelicateWolverine 2 years ago
I asked you to think about it and all you can come up with is "you don't get it?" Really, you should try harder because you are seriously off base here. Torture isn't "immoral" because it produces bad information, a proper adjective here may be "inefficient." Torture isn't "immoral" because it makes our enemies angry and they will want revenge, the adjective here may be "counterproductive." Torture IS "immoral" because it inflicts sadistic pain upon helpless people, for example. Get it?
HungryNomadicLion 2 years ago
YEAH RIGHT!!
cerritoboy 2 years ago
so when are they going to star fireboarding?
Emil246 2 years ago
Let's see now...........
Water-board, or
cut their heads off?
Hummmm.
bobbytiger 2 years ago
1. we still do it, in bagram airbase in iraq and we pay our allies and mercinaries to do it for us.
2. if the iranians had gun rights like we do there revolution would have had a bite to go with its bark. you cant push over a armed population like there goverment did.
denisdeveze 2 years ago 2
Don't the detainees get hung after they've been water boarded?
TankSwift 2 years ago
show all political prisoners the tyt show as torture. it surely would work on me.
ddamico3 2 years ago
then why you watch it ???
that seems very fucking dumb to me !
coolchanga 2 years ago
then why you watch it? what kind of uneducated idiot are you?
ddamico3 2 years ago
Why don't you have them listen to Rush in loops instead?
DrQuijano 2 years ago
same thing. it's still torture. they're all on the same team. hegelian dialectic.
ddamico3 2 years ago
He's crazy..how dare he compare us to Iran are you f'n kidding me? Waterboarding in Iran, honey, that's if your shit lucky ,I should know, I'll put you on the phone with one of my iranian cousins or relatives ...what a stretch
cyrushoda 2 years ago
do you know what making a point is ????
he was making a point about waterboarding being a way of torture ... too bad you did not understand that
coolchanga 2 years ago 2
Calm down my friend, we all know waterboarding is what they do to prisoners in Iran when they want to give them fun times. We have read the reports on all the other horrors visited upon people in those torture chambers.
The point TYT is making is about the irony that America can't object to this particular method of torture for obvious reasons. They need to fix their government too, if only by a few inches in comparison to the miles and miles ours has to go.
lacountess 2 years ago 2
As much as I support Obama, this line of " Don't look backward, look forward " has got to be one of the stupidest things for a president to say.
By that EXACT same logic, NOBODY in this country should be arrested for ANY crime, because all crimes committed immediately become " In the past "
I don't see him mandating that History class be taken out of public schools, do you guys?
Come on Obama, charge Bush and Cheney with treason or don't expect a second term.
ViciousRanger 2 years ago 3
You really are a moron. Obama simply doesn't have the political power do even attempt to do such a thing.
Octavaryum 2 years ago
I's going to take 50 years before america can speak on human rights without being laughed out of the room, sad.
Stormwern 2 years ago 3
Cenk, im sry dude but you dont have to be so happy and have that look on your face that says; "i told you so"!
we're better then those freakin' ass hole who loves waterboarding!
p.s! i agree with you on everything tho. and you have a reasonable argument.
lyfecom 2 years ago
Iran has lured much from the Bush administration; Bad elections, Tourcher, and when a democrat starts talking to you, you plug your ears as yell "I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOUR EVIL AND ALWAYS WRONG, I'M ALWAYS RIGHT AND JUST, NAN NAN NAN I CANT HEAR YOU!!!"
DiceWarwick 2 years ago 3
They hate us for our freedom.
Our freedom to waterboard them, and nuke them, and bomb them, and invade their countries, and occupy thir cities, and kill their children in their own land.
Yeah, they hate our freedom.
politicalfarce 2 years ago 3
I hope you post with irony, and understand that the left have no different an agenda... because if you don't then *ahhh* bless your a politically naive sucker.. when america and the west and world in general get out of this left/right perspective then maybe we can move forward..
Alexwozere 2 years ago
I agree. America is a war nation regardless of who's in charge.
But I do believe it's a little better under Obama. A little.
politicalfarce 2 years ago
True. When you consider that companies like Pepsico and Tyson Foods and IBM are no small participants in the Defense Contracts game, you will begin to understand that the Military-Industrial Complex which Pres. Eisenhower warned America against back in '61 is as powerful or more than Eis. feared.
Considering General E's background, very scary. It bothers me a great deal that the avg. Am. has no clue what a huge part the Am. Mil.-Ind.Complex has in our economy. Amer. IS a HUGE purveyor of WAR.
talismansoul 2 years ago
The obvious implication is HOW does a country claim to be the Defendor of Freedom and Justice when that country's revenue is largely dependant on WAR and death and destruction around the world?
If the US really wants a peaceful World, then we need to stop profiting from it!
Export Peace, not War!
talismansoul 2 years ago
Perhaps I need to brush up on my history....but WHEN exactly did we Nuke them?
I'm with you on everything else, just wondering why you included " Nuking them "
ViciousRanger 2 years ago
Dude, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Come on, we tell them they can't have nuclear power, and yet not only do we have more nukes than the rest of the world combined, but we're the only ones that used them on civilians.
Surely the hypocrisy can't escape you.
politicalfarce 2 years ago
:laughs: The casualty figures for US deaths alone,in an invasion of Japan, were estimated to be 1 million. You bringing up Hiroshima and Nagasaki show me that you have a very one sided view of the subject. We don't tell them they can't have nuclear power, we discourage nuclear weapons production. I am no fan of nukes but to point a condemning finger to the past shows that you have little grasp of real world geopolitics.
MoonlitKnight817 2 years ago
I am sure there are some Bush appologists who will spin this so Bush can still hold the moral highground.
TheEldritchMask 2 years ago
well put fellows. and now i am wondering what the neocons have to say about iran waterboarding people..though i'm thinking they'd like to not say anything at all.
sisforshayla 2 years ago