Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJager
Its funny how the whole contrived "Gitmo Contraversy" the media suddenly chose to play up disapeared after the London attacks..
Oh, the bomb attacks may have made people temporarily less receptive to the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo, for the same reason people were not receptive to the treatment of Germans after the war.

In the end they will want to uphold certain standards of decency that are at odds with your variety of fascism, such as the presumption of innocence and the humane treatment of detainees who have been found guilty. We don't want to be the next 'Asian' whisked away to Gitmo under the cover of silence or shot in the head eight times on an underground platform, do we?

Another reason why your attitude to torture should be rejected is that it is so ineffective in the fight against terrorism.

That there are soldiers and entire departments in the U.S. military who want to uphold those standards is testimony to the strength of American democracy. I would rather subscribe to what Air Force General Rivers says in the papers:

Finally, the use of the more extreme interrogation techniques simply is not how the U.S. armed forces have operated in recent history. We have taken the legal and moral "high-road" in the conduct of our military operations regardless of how others may operate. Our forces are trained in this legal and moral mindset beginning the day they enter active duty. It should be noted that law of armed conflict and code of conduct training have been mandated by Congress and emphasized since the Viet Nam conflict when our POWs were subjected to torture by their captors. We need to consider the overall impact of approving extreme interrogation techniques as giving official approval and legal sanction to the application of interrogation techniques that U.S. forces have consistently been trained are unlawful.