A message from the Buddy Chat Room:
Is there anyone out there who believes torture is a good idea?
-- Hang Thumbs
What do you mean by torture?
-- Nervous Cat
Doing illegal things to another person to get him to talk. In war, information is the most important weapon.
We would like to acquire it with satellites, but sometimes it's better to gather your intelligence on the ground. That's where torture comes in. As a great statesman has said, "You go to war with what you've got."
-- Thumbs
Was what they did at the Abu Ghraib prison considered torture?
-- Cat
It was in the ballpark. We knew there were inmates there that knew something, but we didn't know who they were and what they knew or when they knew it. The Army and CIA were assigned the task of finding out.
-- Thumbs
Frankly, I had no problem with that except the photographs they took showed women torturing the inmates with dog leashes, sexual perversions and other unseemly acts. I can expect that of men, but not women.
-- Cat
