Ban on Torture Accepted (10)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-12-15 22:42 ID:eUvegn1x

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/congress_detainees
"President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain's call for a law banning cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror."

"McCain said he hoped to have it passed in Congress within 24 hours."

2 Name: Unverified Source 2005-12-18 23:37 ID:wur8frcO

Good news, but it's kind of screwed up there was a debate over this in the first place.

The Washington Post published a good article about this in its Outlook section today. (I'd post a link to the web version, but it requires logging in and I can't get it to work.)

3 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-12-19 01:34 ID:Iwc3wgqR

This one?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html
"One nasty morning Comrade Stalin discovered that his favorite pipe was missing. Naturally, he called in his henchman, Lavrenti Beria, and instructed him to find the pipe. A few hours later, Stalin found it in his desk and called off the search. "But, Comrade Stalin," stammered Beria, "five suspects have already confessed to stealing it.""

4 Name: Unverified Source 2005-12-19 15:17 ID:Heaven

How did you do that?

It wanted me to log in to their site to read it... anyway, yes, that one.

5 Name: Unverified Source 2005-12-19 20:14 ID:chlwRMnm

I thought torture (pardon me, "cruel, inhuman and denegrating treatment") was already prohibited by the Geneva Convention, which the U.S. signed on to long ago. Beides, there's an exemption in the anti-torture deal called the "ticking time bomb," in which torture is effectively allowed if it'll stop a clear and present danger. If, as Sen. McCain contends, torture doesn't work on prisoners, why does he say torture worked on him as a POW, and why is this exemption allowed?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0512190125dec19,1,20626.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
McCain concedes U.S. torture ban not absolute

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1218montini18.html
Thanks to McCain, we pledge (wink) never to use torture

6 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-12-19 21:06 ID:LWS/h9xT

>>4 >How did you do that?
I went to news.google.com and searched for "torture".
Then ctrl-F (Find) for "wash(ington)".

7 Name: Unverified Source 2005-12-24 12:51 ID:Heaven

>>4

> It wanted me to log in to their site to read it...

http://www.bugmenot.com

8 Name: Unverified Source 2006-01-06 00:04 ID:Heaven

>>7
I know, but none of the accounts I found there worked. Either they were all bad or the Washington Post's site wants JavaScript.

9 Name: Unverified Source 2006-01-17 17:45 ID:Ggx1U3mI

The usa aren't any better than the iran or other countries where they openly torture their inmates, why can't they just drop their laughable and pathetic hypocracy for once and just admit that they don't follow any international laws?

10 Name: INTERNET TOUGH GUY 2006-01-18 20:34 ID:Heaven

>>9

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that just because a few servicemen might have overstepped their bounds in defending American freedoms it made us equal to an Islamofascist theocracy who torture and rape and murder at will in order to enforce their worthless ideology upon a terrified populace. But don't let that get in the way of your "LOL AMERIKKKA" circlejerk.

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