Ex-military, Thoughts on Torture?

[RandomGuy]

Torture is a phychological slippery-slope and the worst part is these guys will eventually come home to their wives and girlfriends where they will be sadists at home.--Dan

I concur.

This stuff is simply evil. People that do it lose their humanity, and I wouldn't want to live next door to somebody who did.

Imagine the guy leaves the service and decides to become a teacher. Would you trust your children to a teacher who had done something like this?

[Guru of Nothing]

23 years and AF and also Viet Nam also Korea. I disagreee. What is being talked
about is not bamboo shoots under fingernails, pulling fingernails off people.
We are talking about much different things and it isn't torture. We don't put
them on the rack, break bones. But we do stress them.

I don't want you folks going to what they do to our people. No comparison.
We prosecute those that mistreat prisoners, even the so called mistreatment that can really only be called embarrassment. You folks also
say we are above that sort of thing. Horse Hockey, most of you think
having to standing in line a Wendys is torture and having to read post
made by me and Yoni also torture, get over yourself and understand we
are in a war. We are dealing with thugs who have no conscious and
could care less about you, your family or friends and laugh at your
rantings. They will take advantage of every weakness we show and have
as witnessed by their rantings about abuse in Club Gitmo and having to
stand in the nude in Abu Grab (sp). , I say send them back to their
home country and let them deal with them and when we do that we
are told how bad we are. Get a life folks, we are in a war and the real
world. Every GI I ever knew, knew what would happened if captured
by the VC or North Koreans. And it damn sure wasn't three squares a day and a nice day room.

On behalf of the readers here, please resume quoting others.

[gtownspur]

Which makes his opinion on waterboarding all the more notable.

Yeah, i see where you're coming from.

since he wasn't waterboarded, he's an expert on it.

[RandomGuy]

Of all the dips in congress, I would trust McCain completely when it comes to matters of torture.

I don't mind stress in an interrogation, but anything that approaches torture, such as waterboarding is right out.

[Yonivore]

Yeah, i see where you're coming from.

since he wasn't waterboarded, he's an expert on it.

In my book, the CIA officers that actually were waterboarded, in preperation for them doing the same to others, actually are the experts.

[RandomGuy]

In my book, the CIA officers that actually were waterboarded, in preperation for them doing the same to others, actually are the experts.

Further de-humanizing them, great. [/sarcasm]

[ChumpDumper]

Yeah, i see where you're coming from.

since he wasn't waterboarded, he's an expert on it.

He's had much, much worse done to him - yet he considers this torture.

I don't expect you idiots to understand or respect McCain - you think watching 24 is supporting the war effort.