The Bush Administration has openly admitted to using waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques after 9-11. After Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Americans became quite concerned that the US was torturing POW's.
President Bush admits to using waterboarding:
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What are the positives and negatives of using "enhanced interrogation tchniques"? Do you think the US should use them to keep our country safe?
Here are some links that will help you gain some insight into the topic:
Obama Stops the Use of Waterboarding
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I think that if waterboarding is what we need to do to protect our country, we should do it. Think about 911, they took away thousands of our citizens. We waterboarded 3 people and we haven't gotten attacked since. I think waterboarding is absolutely awful, but if it'll protect our country we should do it.
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i think it's really harsh, but i guess that if it can help our country in any way, then we have to do what we have to do. yes, it's torture, but it doesn't really badly harm as to close to death anyone either.
My thoughts on water boarding is that our country should use water boarding, because of the countless number of lives it saves.
While I do think that we need to interrogate people in order to come up with answers, waterboarding is way to extreme. I wanted to know a little more, and I came upon this video. This demonstration was put on by Vanity Fair to see what we are subjecting our prisoners to. It is very disturbing to watch. This is not interrogating, this is full on torture. We shouldn't be doing this to anybody.
Waterboarding is an awful technique. It should not be used. We would not like it, if other countries took people from our country and did that. In other matters, we had not been attacked under Bush's presidency since it was used. We only did it to 3 people.
My opinion is that water boarding isn't an acceptable way to get information from people. It's cruel and I definitely wouldn't want to be a victim of it, but you can also argue that water boarding has helped get valuable information from people and that it can help keep our country safe. Personally, I think that water boarding is never ok, but I can see why some people would use it in extreme cases or emergency.
I don't really agree with the form of torture...waterboarding. I've been taught to treat others the way you want to be treated so I don't think torture is the way to handle problems. I have some mixed opinions on this issue. If I was falsely accused of a crime I wouldn't want any possibility for something like that to happen. I wouldn't want anything like that to be possible to happen to anyone I know. If it would keep our country safe by waterboarding terrorists, I would rather have the possibility of one person, the terrorists, die from water boarding than having many people die in an attack. Many people what others want to hear even when they aren't being tortured so this issue of lying about what they know would just increase under these circumstances. When I think about waterboarding, I think of what other countries would do to the U.S. not the other way around.
i dont like it. I think that would be something they would do to us, but if it helped us out then if its for a good reason then we should do it so we dont get attacked.
I think its sickening. No matter how terrible of crime someone has done, two wrongs don't make a right. If you look at it from a different perspective ( like another country using the water boarding technique) on an American soldier, we would say no that's wrong. Torturing is not what America stands for.
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