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Barb K.
Olivia, MN     11/02/2009 8:55 AM

First of all these terrorists are not uniformed military, therefore, they are not to be afforded the rights under the Geneva Convention. If you are refering to waterboarding, Joe, that is NOT "torture". Torture is something that leaves physical disfigurment or scars, or extreme mental scars. Waterboarding is done as a training exercise to our own military and CIA and we certainly wouldn't "torture" them as a way of training them. Waterboarding is a scare tactic. As far as anyone thinking our captured soldiers would be treated better if we are gentle and kind to these terrorists only have to look at what the VietCong did, what the Japanese did and what the Germans did. We abided by the Geneva convention in those cases but our enemies sure didn't. It's a real travisity to prosocute our military and CIA for doing what is best for this country.