WATERBOARDING Right or Wrong? Help me decide.

I want your input. Do you feel Waterboarding is torture? If so, are there times where it would still benefit the US to use this method in interrogations? I'm undecided. Give me your comments.

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[blingdorkle]

yes or no to you sir.

Your mother has been raped and mutilated. Unspeekable things were done to her as your father watched, then murdered in front of her. A person laughs at your grief because he knows who did it and thinks it was justified.Would you waterboard that person to find the culprit? yes or no

[josephreedmusic]

Wow...powerful scenerio. I probably would. Thanks for the comment bling. ~ Joseph

[bobviously]

Damn man, you've got to ask if it's okay to torture one man to save a thousand lives? Does the word torture matter? You're not even killing the terrorist, you're just making him hurt and panic. He'll get over it. Dead people won't. Stop hand wringing over freaking out-of-touch-with-reality loony leftists.

[josephreedmusic]

Thank you very much for your comment! Tell your friends about this video to encourage more input. I will be doing a follow-up video when I get enough comments. ~ Joseph

[Crickettedog]

The Director of the CIA admitted that he was aware of the missing tapes and he said nothing about it. Not only that, there are documents showing that water-boarding was discussed at the highest levels of the Bush Administration. The Bush Administration is made up of a bunch of fascists. It is immaterial what others tell you. It is illegal.

[josephreedmusic]

Crickett, Thank you very much for your input. What about what i'm hearing about members of congress (both parties) seeing demonstrations after 911 and verbally approving it, even asking if it was tough enough? Do you know anything about that? Thanks for watching. ~ Joseph

[Oofloom]

Torture is like that oddly-shaped gadget in the back of your toolbox that you maybe used once 10 years ago. It's not the hammer or screwdriver or ratchet. Yeah, you don't want to get rid of it because you might need it some day, but 99.99% of the time there's a better tool for the job.

[Oofloom]

That's what happens when you mass produce torture: quality control goes out the window. It's was amateur hour everywhere. The few pros we did have refused to take part in it because they knew it was gonna be a fiasco. The "experts" training people were SERE instructors who'd never actually tortured anyone in their entire lives.

[Oofloom]

But does torture work? Yes and no. Yes - in that it can get someone to tell you what you want to know. No - in that it can get someone to tell you what you want to HEAR.

Remember the Bush administration's claims about Iraqi officials meeting up with Al Qaeda in Europe? They said they had "confirmation" that it happened. So where did that confirmation come from? Khalid Sheik Muhammed, aka the 9-11 mastermind. He admitted it after being waterboarded. And, yes, it was total bullshit.

[Oofloom]

Here's where things get complicated, because we were torturing ppl years before Bush entered office. The difference in the pre-Bush era was that is was only used sparingly, was conducted only by experienced professionals, and was generally reserved for the worst of the worst. So while we might have tortured Bin Laden in the pre-Bush era, but we wouldn't have tortured his cab driver (yes that actually happened).

[Oofloom]

Well the question isn't whether it's torture or not. Waterboarding is simply emblematic of the much larger debate over torture. But let's get it out of the way: waterboarding is torture. That's a fact. Anything forced upon a person that they can't endure for 10 seconds without begging for mercy is obviously torture. I challenge anyone to find a better definition for torture than that. OK... now that that childish debate is settled, let's get to the real issue: should we torture.

[WrexsouI]

Waterboarding is NOT torture. If you want to know what the Iraqis did to some British soldiers, read Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab. He describes being physically beaten until he passed out and woke back up on the interrogation chair. That was a daily occurrence for him too. The Iraqis also made him clean up a toilet with his hand and and lick it. What do you think is worse; passing out from oxygen deprivation (waterboarding) or to pass out from getting crowd stomped and licking your poop.

[blingdorkle]

bring back the nuetron bomb so we can end torture. they all must die, that is what they understand and want. no?

[blingdorkle]

well, ya see, they knew the answer before they asked. the waterboarding just crosses the t's and dot's the eye's.

[TangPolice]

I like wakeboarding, skimboarding and surfing maybe i should givewaterboarding a shot.

Dude honestly u siad it yourself in the first slide. " Subject (FEELS) close to drowning, death. but is not actualy drowning mind overm mater dude. maybe if these people would agree and help save lifes we wouldent be such dicks to them but seriously if there being gay like that, well fuck them.

[hatecruedeathroll]

Waterboarding: "to induce the feeling or sense of drowning." Nothing that any kid at the local neighborhood pool when I was growing up, didn't at some time experience when the bully would hold you under the water until you experienced that "feeling or sense of drowning." And he wasn't trying to gather information in order to save lives. So, does that, in some way help you decide? Waterboarding is no more tortureous than that. Besides, it's for a good cause.