How about using it to save American lives????!!!!!!!!?

I am a mom, wife, business owner.

When will libs realize that your everyday, common person DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THIS?

That is why the Democratic Party will NEVER get it together. Its constituents are Nascar Bluecollars who don't give a damn if we HAVE to torture a little bit to save our country if it comes down to it. I am plain folk, but I am also college educated, though i admit I am not as educated, and therefore, not as progressive thinking as your average college professor, but like him/ her, I obviously have an agenda!!!!! Anyone who might put themselves in the way of possibly being tortured doesn't care to live or die, anyways. And they sure the hell don't respect any treaties signed about treatment of prisoners. They're gonna torture you if they get the chance!!!!!!!!! GOD IN HEAVEN, LIBS GET SOME BRAINS FOR THE SAKE OF THE COUNTRY

You are wrong my friend. When it means American lives vs. 90 seconds of terror to the animals we have to deal with...yes, the ends DO justify the means. How can anyone with an IQ above 90 compare waterboarding to beheading someone with a dull knife?

I remember the beheadings. That made them appear the worst. But we are now a nation known world wide for torture. The world now regards the USA on the same level. But torture is a inarguably a sicker pursuit than execution. The administration is sicker than the terrorist beheadings. Who is sicker, a person that kills a cow or the person that tortures a cow? Who is sicker, a person that kills a dog or the person that tortures a dog? Shouldn't torturing a human, or listing the accepted forms of torturing humans, build an outrage that's higher than for the dog or cow? Imagine Bush himself performing those things on a dog. Your dog. What would you do to him. What would you think of someone doing that stuff to your dog? Now take it back up to reality and he's doing it to people. He's done it to the innocent and the guilty as if he is in the position of God like judgment.

"The ends never justify the means if it requires us to ignore our oath to the Constitution."

What does the Constitution have to do with non-US citizens who are terrorists?

Ummm....Brent, if we were becoming the enemy we would have just summarily executed these guys. Perhaps, slit their throats from ear to ear, as is the common practice amongst AQ and its ideological kin.

To Brent: These are prisoners of war, non American citizens and do not have protection under our constitution. I think you may need to take a refresher civics class. You may be surprised to know that our own special forces soldiers endure the same techniques above during their training so that they can know what to expect. In fact, many of them return home, after their training, covered in cuts and bruises. Unfortunately, there isn't anything that can prepare them for a beheading.

I agree with "MarinesCallmeDoc".
They do horrible things - we just fake them out with waterboarding? You cant even compare! How else do you expect to get the needed information?

No Physical damage and only the psychological damage in order to gain the information that could in effect save thousands of lives. Well then lets get to waterboarding! I am all in favor of using this technique, despite its psycholigical effect on a combatant that is willing to give their own lives in order to kill thousands of Americans, strap on suicide belts for anyone that may not agree with their fanatical ways, behead innocent civilians. It seems like the least we can do is waterboard them in attempts to get them to provide information related to the safety and security of innocent civilians anywhere in cases where they otherwise would not provide the information. They still get to keep their life and we get to save ours, seems like splitting hairs, but they are not subjected to any real physical harm in the process. If they were in a "normal" battlefield situation, which most people dont realize how much the field of battle has changed, then the means to the end is typically not questioned, except in rare instances. Maybe we should just pat them on the back, give them a few bucks, appologize, and send them back out their to try again. Trying sleeping better when the enemy conbatant is slicing the throats of friends and loved ones or do you toss and turn too much knowing that the combatant had a bit of water poured over their head to prevent bloodhsed among innocent lives. I can sleep just fine with the minor psychological damage inflicted to a enemy combatant, and wonder how many of us would sign up to enforce this interogation technique? Put me in coach, I am ready to play!

Hmmm, dunking someone in water is hardly as extreme as say cutting heads off. If force is needed to save our peoples lives I have no qualms. If you think otherwise fly to a terrorist stronghold and explain to them how much you love them. You'll have a starring role in thier next video.

Navy SEALs use this technique as during BUDS. What's the problem?

I fiqure CIA math is kinda like dog years so if they admit to 3 that translates to 142 or therabouts....

How many Nazi generals did we waterboard or otherwise torture during WWII? Zero. While the Nazis were burning millions of human beings in ovens we gave captured Nazi officers villas and gourmet meals. By the end of the war Germans were surrendering in droves to US forces, rather than get captured and tortured by our Soviet allies.

I still am amazed that we have tolerated our leaders violating a treaty that our country has agreed to. Do we have any integrety as a nation anymore? The Geneva Accord forbade torture. Waterboarding has always been described as a torture. I am amazed that our leaders are still in office. They have violated our laws and the Constitution.

Sooooooo the CIA have only used it 3
times???? Oh Puleezzzzeeeee!!!!!! I wonder
how many prisoners have died and the Bushite Adminstration are covering it up.
There were many prisoners at Guantanamo
that were moved and human rights groups
do not know where they are. They are missing....Hmmmmmmm...............

D at 3:35 - Well, we did firebomb entire cities full of German civilians. A tad more violent than waterboarding.

Well D, lets just bake them some cookies with milk, and invite them for Thanksgiving dinners where they can either surrender to us in droves or slice our throats while we sleep. The battlefield has changed, times have changed, procedures need to change also. I am not for putting the enemy combatants up in villas and givng them gourmet meals, make them earn it with a good waterboarding! Better yet bring them all to Texas where if 3 or more people see you commit the crime, you move to the front of the line, after waterboarding of course!

Torture is against the law. Period.
It is a CRIME! Impeach.

Brent;

I am sorry to say...but "Dunk Them"...
the means does justify the end...

"Saving American Lives"

These are "TERROIST" repeat "TERROSIT"
that want to kill us...

I am sure if your family was being held by these "TERROIST" and they only had a few hour before the will be "MURDERED"....you will be dunking them yourself!!!!!!!!!

Libs please wake up these "TERROIST" want to kill you and your families...stop worrying about them and start worrying about the "USA" !!!!!!

If the CIA ADMITS to three, it is probably REALLY somewhere around 300.

This torture is disgusting and should be discontinued.