What’s So Wrong With A Little Waterboarding?
Published on April 21, 2009 by Travis · 2 Comments
With the recent release of secret CIA memos concerning torture techniques used by military personal to obtain information from “the enemy”, people are turning this whole thing into a gigantic deal. With saying that, I do not condone torture of prisoners for many reason BUT shit happens in war. We have killed thousands and thousands of people the past 8 or so years alone, kids and women too, and people are freaking the fuck out over some water getting poured on a guy’s head while he’s got a sheet over his head. Again, I don’t agree with it, but it seems to me there are far worse things that were going on at that time and continue to go on now and for people to be making a big deal of this when it happened years ago, it just seems a little ridiculous to me. Dick Cheney and a few former Bush cronies were of course pissed about the release of the memos by the Obama administration. Cheney bitched about the how the memos didn’t include any of the “good” that came from the waterboarding and other torture techniques used. I’m sure it was world shaking information that changed the course of the war. The biggest problem that I have with this whole situation is, the guys that carried out these orders may get in trouble for all of this. The people who ordered the torture, yes, something should happen to them because they knew what they were doing was wrong, BUT the guys who did it, leave them alone. These guys have been trained for years to do whatever someone in authority tells them to do, essentially they are robots. You can’t punish someone for doing what they have been trained to do which is follow orders, and don’t ask questions. I just think this whole situation is little ridiculous, people need to get over that shit, move on, and spend their energy trying to figure out how they can help things NOW, not worry about something like water getting poured on a guys head.
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OK, Travis, let’s pour a little water over your head and we’ll see how you feel then.
As for following orders, did you ever hear of a little place called Nuremberg? “I vas chust following orders” just doesn’t cut it anymore. I do agree with you, though, the people on the front lines should not be the scapegoats for it. We need to come down *hard* on the people who gave the orders in the first place.
i do belive that sumtimes torture is necessary, when all other avenues are expended, and i dont think u know what waterboarding really does. they strap u down and the “water getting poured on your head” makes u vomit. when u vomit all your muscles contract but ur strapped down and cant move so when you vomit it slowly fractures your bones causing them to break, snap, fracture over and over again, that’s wat waterboarding is.