Do any of you libs know what was done to Japanese prisoners in the invasion of Japan before we dropped the bomb? They were killed. I saw an interview with a WWII vet he said they couldn't bring them with them, they had no food for them, and they couldn't leave them so they had to kill them. War is hell that's the way it is....and you people complain about scaring someone.
War is a sticky situation, no doubt about it. And no, I didn't know about those Japanese POWs who got killed. Not sure how I feel about that. But if you've got no choice, you've got no choice. Still, couldn't they have disarmed them and left them on an island somewhere? I dunno. Sounds like a really tough decision to make.
Whereas in West's case, he had plenty of options. He could have simply not tortured the man. He could have turned him over to trained interrogators to do the job. Of course, there's a good chance he'd just get tortured by the interrogators. But then I'd be calling that person a monster instead of West.
The mission in Iraq does not involved people who are not trained in interrogation using techniques that do not work to extract information that is not true. To compare that to military necessity is extremely dishonest.
I'm actually not clear on what the Geneva Convention says you're supposed to do with POWs that you can't feed. My guess is that it says you're not supposed to take them prisoner in the first place. But I do know what the Geneva Convention says about torture. It's very clear. Don't do it.