Oh....it's the old terrorists don't have rights bit
Vietnamese used the same argument for torturing our pilots. They considered them to be war criminals who did not deserve the rights of soldiers
Guess it depends on which side you are on
What the hell are you saying? That its up to interpretation of who are the terrorists, between American troops and Al-Queda?????
If our troops commit violence against civilians, then they will be charged with war crimes, but the entire purpose of the military mission isn't to kill innocents, otherwise the country can be bought up on charges.
If you want to give terrorists the same rights as our troops, than you're undermining laws that exist that protects civilians, period.
And the question you have no answer for, is why did this only become torture when we started doing it to the enemy??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
You give them rights as human beings. That has always been our way
It did not become torture when we started doing it. Water boarding is condemned as torture around the world. In fact, we prosecuted Japanese for war crimes for engaging in water boarding
The United States is supposed to be the good guys. We lead by example. Engaging in torture does not set a good example
Its not the same waterboarding that has been condemned around the world, and no one was talking about how its torture when we were doing it to our troops exclusively.
I do agree with you that these people should get basic human rights. The waterboarding that we have designed, does not harm a person physically. There are plenty of other techniques we use that challenge the subject mentally, but we do so to get information that may save lives, not to prove a point. I think these techniques are very civilised.