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Originally Posted by dar512
While you may have doubts that Guantanamo prisoners have been waterboarded, there is no doubt that prisoners have been tortured.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007...guantanamo.usa
I don't get the defense of this behavior. If it's legal to do against POWs how soon will we see it used against citizens? How soon will a citizen be declared a POW so that torture can be used?
One of the objectives of the law is to prohibit abuses of power. This is the sort of thing that should be specifically prohibited. |
I am not defending it as much as I am getting those who believe it to prove their assertions in these discussions. Most of you can't. Did it happen, sure, most likely, but not at GITMO. Was it a standard practice, no I don't believe it. But hell, if I was locked up in GITMO for as long as some of those poor saps I would claim it too. What defense attorney would not tell their defendant in GITMO to make such a claim, I would.