Waterboarding
Terrorists is NOT Torture By:
Diane Sori
Torture...a word now being bantered around by the terrorist-loving
liberal left solely to shame our beloved America...to shame those whose
job it is to make sure payback for things done to America and Americans is indeed a
b*tch.
And as the traitor Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Senator
Dianne Feinstein continues to drone on and on about America's so-called
shame...claiming shame without her or her committee ever having
interviewed any of the CIA operatives who inflicted this 'supposed'
shame upon our enemies...a question remains of, were the acts
perpetrated upon the enemy's person actually shame in the guise of
torture or just standard practices used by many nations to get much
needed information from prisoners.
Before I answer that question we first must understand the nature of
torture, its legal aspects and parameters. The Geneva Convention of 1949
and its Additional Protocols of June 8, 1977 contain provisions that
prohibit torture and other 'cruel or inhuman treatment' inflicted upon
'individual dignity.' And in 1984 the U.S. signed... along with 74 other
countries...an international treaty initiated by the UN against the use
of torture. But what constitutes 'cruel and inhumane treatment'...in
other words 'torture'...to one culture might NOT be considered so by
another culture. However, most would agree that what could be defined as
torture is the act of deliberately and with malice inflicting severe
physical and/or psychological pain to someone either physically
restrained or under the torturer's control and who is unable to defend
themselves against what is being done to them.
And
while in today's world torture still remains prohibited under both
international and domestic laws of most countries...via the above said
Geneva Convention and other such tenets as those from Amnesty
International and the UN Convention Against Torture amongst
others...,just know that torture, to some degree, is still routinely
practiced by both the enemy and by the 'good guys' alike, but in the
case of the 'good guys'... meaning the U.S...it's used for 'just cause'
alone NO matter how hard the liberal Democrats try to have you believe
otherwise.
But again, what are the specifics that constitute one an act of torture and the other just 'enhanced interrogation' techniques.
To begin, certain techniques now in question...techniques used during
the George W. Bush presidency...now have the Democrats taking Obama's
mantra of 'It's all Bush's fault' to a new level. And while Bush stated
in the aftermath of 9/11 that "The United States of America does not
torture," and although he signed the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 that
addressed supposed incidents of now called detainee abuse, Bush made it
clear that he reserved the right to waive this act if he thought it was
needed to do so...and in NO uncertain terms it indeed was needed.
In fact, most of the techniques that were used during the Bush
administration were sanctioned by our military including the use of
yelling, loud music, light control, environmental manipulation, sleep
deprivation, stress positions, 20-hour interrogations, and controlled
fear (including the use of dogs) as acceptable techniques to be used
against any and all enemies as the need warranted. And anyway
terrorists...especially islamic terrorists...pose such an extreme threat
that, I believe, governments should be freely allowed to use some
degree of so-called torture if it helps gain information that saves
innocent lives NO matter what the kumbaya Democrats or their
America-hating president says.
But what's at the heart of this confrontation between the liberal left
and the CIA is NOT something as simple as yelling or even sleep deprivation,
but is the practice that was used by the CIA on only three GITMO detainees...three
out of thousands that have been detained at GITMO...and it's the
technique known as waterboarding.
Contrary to what Feinstein and her ilk want you to believe in their
anything but truthful 'Torture Report' (please see my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOT
partner and friend Craig Andresen's article on the specifics of this
report at http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2014/12/15/torture-report-is-all-about-liberalism-part-2/) is the fact that waterboarding was NOT born with the CIA but
predates the Inquisition and has been used worldwide for centuries,
waxing and waning as a preferred 'enhanced interrogation' technique.
Simply, waterboarding relies on a person's innate fear of drowning and
suffocating to coerce confessions, and while it does cause physical and
mental suffering, it leaves no tell-tale marks on the body nor does it
cause death, making it an optimum tool to get an enemy to talk.
And lest anyone forget, waterboarding was designed and is executed in such a way as to let the person it is done to live.
And something Feinstein selectively chose NOT to mention in her
committee's traitorous report is that waterboarding has a long history
in 'so-called' modern times as well, as it was routinely used by the
Japanese in World War II, by U.S. troops in the Philippines and in
isolated cases during the Viet Nam War, and by the French in Algeria.
Waterboarding was also used in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge against their
own people, and by the British against both Arabs and Jews in occupied
Palestine in the 1930s. In the 1970s, it was extensively used in Latin
America... most notably by the military dictatorships in Chile and
Argentina.
Also, as late as November 2005, waterboarding was on the CIA's list of
approved 'enhanced interrogation techniques' that was intended for use
on 'high-value' terror suspects. And according to memos released by
the U.S. Department of Justice in April 2009, waterboarding was still
listed among 10 'enhanced interrogation' techniques authorized for use
on al-Qaida operatives...especially for use on top-tier al-Qaeda
operatives...you know like those who planned the 9/11 attacks...like
those three it was used on.
And the fact is that over the years...over the centuries...thousands of
people have been waterboarded, but sadly Feinstein and her truly vile
ilk care more about the three islamic bast*rds directly connected to the
horrific events of 9/11 then they do about the three thousand Americans
who lost their lives that day or about the countless American troops
whose lives were saved by the intelligence garnered from those three who
were waterboarded.
However, the question that still remains is this...is waterboarding a form of
illegal torture...and to that I say NO and I base that on the fact that
there is indeed such a thing as 'legally' allowed torture under specific
circumstances when it relates to terrorists. While we as a nation
specifically outlaw American citizens from practicing torture in Title
18 of the U.S. legal code and allow for anyone who kills another person
through torture to face the death penalty, this code applies to an act
of one civilian against another and does NOT address what happens during
a time of war.
So, do the torture laws that protect enemy combatants captured under the
normal rules of war extend to terrorists...in the aftermath of 9/11 the
Bush administration (rightfully) concluded that the Geneva Convention
did NOT apply to enemies in the 'War on Terror' and therefore they were
interrogated thusly. And the 'Rumsfeld Memo' (put together by
Constitutional attorneys) concluded that under the Constitution and the
executive authority it grants to the president in his role as
commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Bush was afforded 'wide powers'
that superseded international and domestic laws concerning torture and
thus gave him the ability to order terror suspects be interrogated using
methods then that are today considered torture under international law.
In addition, this what was a 'legally' binding memo also allowed those
who followed said orders to waterboard the three islamic terrorists to
be immune from any legal prosecution under a 'good faith' defense...a
defense which stated that the torturer was told beforehand that the act
he would perpetrate upon a prisoner did NOT constitute torture.
Therefore, at the time the waterboarding in question by this committee
was used by the Bush administration, waterboarding was legally allowed
and did NOT constitute torture, thus making the entire argument of
waterboarding three islamic terrorists a mute point...a point now proven
NOT to be based upon the legal realities in effect at that time but to
be based upon the emotions of one vindictive woman and her personal vendetta
against the CIA.
So, the bottom line is that since the U.S. NO longer uses waterboarding
as a tactic to garner intelligence why bring up something that happened
almost a decade ago to three islamic terrorists who would kill us all if
given the chance. Why NOT focus instead on our current national
security needs as the threat of those like ISIS are moving ever closer
to our shores if they are NOT already here. And why do those like
Feinstein who claim that this 'American shame' must be exposed in the
name of transparency instead worry about those they have now put in
danger. They willingly forget that America is the greatest nation the
world has ever known...that America has done more to free more people
than any nation that has come before...so one has to wonder just why
these known Obama minions bring this all up and bring it up now.
Well, a few simple words say it all...they must circle the wagons around
Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his love for and protection of his islamic
brethren is why...need I say more.
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