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Originally Posted by Wisha Haddan H3
Thirty-nine percent of Marines and 36 percent of soldiers said torture should be allowed to gather important information from insurgents.
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What if a gang of criminals kidnapped you wife/girfriend/mother/daghter (take your pick) and the police immediately caught one of them, but not the others (who still had your loved one captive and subject to rape/torture/etc). Would you want the police to torture the thug to save your loved one from rape? I would. If not, you probably don't care enough about them. Those Marines and soldiers probably care alot about their buddies getting wounded and shot by the thugs over their. Commendable. Would you torture Moussaoui on September 10, 2001 to prevent 9/11 if you could? I would. If you wouldn't, you probably don't care enough about the potential victims and their families.
Oh, and BTW, you don't know what your talking about with respect to the Geneva Conventions. A signatory "party will remain bound
until the non-signatory no longer acts under the strictures of the convention."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention
Last time I heard Al Qaeda has not signed nor followed the provisions of the Geneva Conventions. Please feel free to correct me if you have contrary information.