Bush/Cheney approves of Torture??? WTF???

Bush and Cheney have gone on record that torture is a viable and useful tool in the war on terrorism.

Even more amazingly, 58 percent of americans support the use of torture to get information from someone if they think it’ll stop a terrorist attack (though when it was pointed out that countries would then use torture against US service men and women, the number dropped to *only* (sarcastic) 37 percent approval).  WHAT THE HELL is wrong with people? Firstly, torture will not get you accurate information, because people will say ANYTHING to make the pain stop. you don’t think so? I bet I could get you to confess to anything I wanted to make you confess to. We’re not talking about bright lights and yelling at people. We are not talking about crappy food and stuck in a cell. We’re talking about taking people, who may or may NOT know anything.

We’re talking about taking splinters of wood, and shoving them up into your nails, one by one, and ripping each nail off.

We are talking about taking people and putting them under a stream of water until they start to drown. then bring them back, then do it again, and again, and again, and again. everytime, letting them choke for minutes as they struggle.

We are talking about taking electrodes and attaching them to nipples and the genitals and burning them, burning them until the flesh blackens.

We’re talking about beating them, over and over, beating them until they can’t walk, cant move.

We’re talking about taking a vice grip and placing a finger into it, and slowly turning it shut until the skin breaks, the flesh tears and the finger mashes into pulp, then repeating it with each finger. or if you want, put the finger in the vice, and take a hammer to it. smash it down.

White Phospherous, put it on the skin, and light it. watch it burn a hole all the way through the other side. as an added bonus, your ‘terrorist’ doesn’t even lose that much blood because the wounds are cauterized.

are you telling me that you would not tell someone anything, whatever they wanted to hear, just to get that to stop? torture will not get you any information that would be more accurate. People lie under torture and say what they think the torturer wants to hear.

America, despite the arrogance we hold, has always held a moral superiority. we did not torture the nazi’s who commited some of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind. We did not torture the japanese, even though they massacred, starved, tortured our troops who had been captured. We as a country are better than that! And if you think that condoning torture won’t have consequences. when us Servicemen are raped, tortured and abused. We will have NO moral outrage. we will have NO way to point to the rest of the worlds and say ‘see, this is what we fight against!’ because the world will point the mirror directly at us, and say, ‘then fight yourself’ On this, the ends do NOT justify the means. They cannot, they MUST not.

What’s sdder, it’s the fundemental ‘god fearing’ people who are most likely to approve of torture. What a sick sad country.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so horrified to be an american in my life.