Submitted by gunthestops on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 11:45.
A simple solution to the torture debate; put a commission together and select six officials that say enhanced interrogations are not torture and six officials that are unsure if it’s torture or not. Put them in confinement for 60 days and use the same interrogation methods used by the military and CIA to soften and extract information. The process is taped and recorded. If at any time they admit it is torture to them they can go free and go back to their life. If more than six detainees say it is torture, the process is stops and the commission moves forward and make recommendations if and who should be prosecuted and if it rises to the level of war crimes. On the other hand if more than six say it is not torture, we stop all the torture nonsense and move on with bigger problems. Either way we would have an answer that most reasonable people can live with.
Why 60 days? Simple, just to have someone brought to a nice studio asked if they are ok and ready for a little water in the face, then have them undergo the water boarding and raise their hand to stop it after 5 or 10 seconds and say enough, that’s not torture! Then you have your entourage or staff gives you clean towels and hurries you out to your limousine. That is not torture!!! Let’s end this charade now.
This is not about these rag head terrorists whom I could give a rats ass about, it is about us as Americans, rule of law, and the future status of our American military personnel who could be captured and held by our enemies. We will have no moral high ground for our captured men and women because they are using enhanced interrogations like America does!
Here are some good candidates; Rush Limbaugh, Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, these people would be very motivated to not give up since they have all dismissed the idea of torture.
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Pointing to evil across the
Pointing to evil across the street does negate the fact that you're pretending to drown a man to get him to answer a question.
It's not a zero sum game.
A simple solution to the torture debate!!!
A simple solution to the torture debate; put a commission together and select six officials that say enhanced interrogations are not torture and six officials that are unsure if it’s torture or not. Put them in confinement for 60 days and use the same interrogation methods used by the military and CIA to soften and extract information. The process is taped and recorded. If at any time they admit it is torture to them they can go free and go back to their life. If more than six detainees say it is torture, the process is stops and the commission moves forward and make recommendations if and who should be prosecuted and if it rises to the level of war crimes. On the other hand if more than six say it is not torture, we stop all the torture nonsense and move on with bigger problems. Either way we would have an answer that most reasonable people can live with.
Why 60 days? Simple, just to have someone brought to a nice studio asked if they are ok and ready for a little water in the face, then have them undergo the water boarding and raise their hand to stop it after 5 or 10 seconds and say enough, that’s not torture! Then you have your entourage or staff gives you clean towels and hurries you out to your limousine. That is not torture!!! Let’s end this charade now.
This is not about these rag head terrorists whom I could give a rats ass about, it is about us as Americans, rule of law, and the future status of our American military personnel who could be captured and held by our enemies. We will have no moral high ground for our captured men and women because they are using enhanced interrogations like America does!
Here are some good candidates; Rush Limbaugh, Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, these people would be very motivated to not give up since they have all dismissed the idea of torture.