UKIP Nigel Farage on compensation for Guantanamo & ex-detainees - BBC Nov 2010

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage condemns use of torture such as waterboarding as a method for extracting information. He states If we resort to this abuse then the terrorists are winning.

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[cornwallgeezer]

When are the dumbed down people going to wake up and support UKIP!!

[kcirdrab]

This "torture is cool" garbage started under Rumsfeld & Cheney & should be confined to the political graveyard with them.

If torture wins wars the Nazis would have won 1939-1945.

All it does is give you a bit of information that you could have got otherwise by other means & turns you into as much of a monster as that which yr fighting, with the consequence that any victory is hollow.

[jurassicturd3]

@MrBasilGanglia first they volunteer, second it's not even the same as used to terror suspects.

It works the same way "give use what we want and it stops" which is used for torture, give us what we want and we stop elctrocuting your nackers, give us what we want and we stop pouring water down your nose and throat forcibly.

[MrHussien777]

Obama is an idiot, trust me people he is like a cartoon chareacter. He promised to close the prison, but instead he remained it open and now planning for another one or 2 wars against Libya and Syriya!!!!!!

[satansbackdoor]

waterboarding may be acceptable price to pay for valuable information, what next, stalin was a hero for putting those found guilty on trial

[MrBasilGanglia]

@kcirdrab Drowning = death. Almost passing out is not torture, neither is distress. US Rangers undergo waterboarding during seres training. Would we spend ALL that money, just to damage the lungs of our soldiers who then become useless?

[eyeswideopennimrod]

What are we protecting if we lower ourselves to torturing our enemies, we are fighting for peace and democracy by using oppression and fear. WAKE UP PEOPLE we in the west are the terrorists stealing and oppressing nations that don't agree with us. The world is colourfull because we are different

[kcirdrab]

@MrBasilGanglia - "Waterboarding" is a CIA term for drowning some1, ie depriving their lungs of oxygen until they almost pass out; it causes intense distress & pain in to the respiratory system

I didn`t limit the definition of physical pain in the way you prefaced this ? with.

[MrBasilGanglia]

@kcirdrab the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure. Explain how waterboarding is torture?

[kcirdrab]

@MrBasilGanglia - Torture = the deliberate infliction of physical pain when the inflicting agent is under no direct threat from the recipient.

[MrBasilGanglia]

@kcirdrab Torture is not "Cool", but the question remains, what constitutes torture?