According to an MSNBC poll the results are: 45.4 % say yes they should be punished while 54.6 % say no they were doing their job to keep us safe.
Have you a job where one day its right and then, the next your a criminal. Who will we get to keep us safe if we break and change the rules after the fact?
I think these guys are heros and known terrorists deserve an eye or an eye.
I think it's disgusting that Obama released this inforamtion.
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Instead, it further erodes what little credibility we have left as a righteous, peace-loving country. That, in turn, could reduce inhibitions others might have against attacking us.
With terrorists, find em, try em, convict em and put them to death. Single bullet to the head. Dont hold em for years to give the terrorists a reason to try and take our people to attempt to ransom and kill. Let them see that we are a no nonsense country that says "If you mess with us, we will hunt you, we will find you and you wont go home except in a box." If thats not enough deterrent eventually there will be none left to execute for terrorism. It might take time but its cheaper to use a bullet than to house them for years.
Just my opinion though.
Abortion providers should be punished as well, for the same reason.
Shame on you Edward!
Maybe if your family was on the terrorist "hit list" you might feel differently about what techniques are used to find out the information in time to save you loved one.
Just a thought.
True. I was drawing a parallel to that and executing Jews at the Nazi concentration camps. That, too, was legal at the time it was performed. But, that didn't stop the ensuing prosecutions.
The common understanding is that information gained through the means of torture is unreliable at BEST.
This is all a big show to take the spotlight off Barry and his band of plundering idiots. He's falling in the abyss and grabbing at whatever he can find to try to save himself.
Why don't we ask anyone of our US soldiers or captured civilians who suffered through their torture what should be done. Oh, wait a minute, we can't, they all got their heads chopped off.
Open your eyes folks.
Jennifer, see my comment to Edward.
Shame on me if someone in my family were to be on a terrorist hit list and I allowed it to cloud my judgment.
I believe that our odds of winning are improved if we remain strong and not allow our feelings to cause us to falter like that. Ultimately, good wins out over evil, so it behooves us to stick with the good.
Engaging in such despicable conduct brings the perpetrators down to the same level as the real terrorists. I agree with Jennifer.
Come on, we are supposed to be much better than that.
However, assuming that the interrogators were specifically asked to use such harsh interrogation techniques, the important difference is that the interrogators are on OUR side. I disagree with the philosophy, but the way I see it, the idea is that it's okay for us to do it to the enemy, but not okay for the enemy to do it to us.
And yes the treatment of terrorists is much different than what Hitler did to innocent civilians.
Mooch