Should POW's be Tortured

[shadron]

Getting close to a resolution on this issue, piecemeal if not universal:

DOD: DETAINEES ARE TO BE TREATED HUMANELY, NO EXCEPTIONS
Not even a valid intelligence requirement can be used to justify cruel
treatment of a detained enemy combatant, according to Defense
Department doctrine on "detainee operations."

The Joint Chiefs of Staff last week issued a slightly revised version
of that DoD doctrine on detainees (the second revision this year).

The document reaffirms that all detainees must be treated humanely.

"Inhumane treatment of detainees is prohibited by the Uniform Code of
Military Justice, domestic and international law, and DOD policy.
There is no exception to this humane treatment requirement."

"Accordingly, the stress of combat operations, the need for
intelligence, or deep provocation by captured and/or detained personnel
does not justify deviation from this obligation."

See Joint Publication 3-63, "Detainee Operations," 30 May 2008:

http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp3_63.pdf

Bolding is mine. From the Secrecy Project Newsletter sponsored by the Federation of American Scientists. see www.fas.org.

 

[Travis]

Perhaps a start would be not to vote for torturers like Dick and Dub and Condie? If you blame the people for electing Hamas then you must blame the people who elected torturers as their representatives - or have I missed something important?

On the ballot it said: George W. Bush (Republican) not George W. Bush (Torturer Advocate). Not that it would have mattered to me since I voted against him anyways.

 

[Beerina]

So if there's a nuclear bomb about to go off, it's ok to cut off the guy's fingers or threaten to shoot his kid, like in "24", but otherwise just detain humanely?

I'm fine with that.

 

[Darth Rotor]

Perhaps a start would be not to vote for torturers like Dick and Dub and Condie? If you blame the people for electing Hamas then you must blame the people who elected torturers as their representatives - or have I missed something important?

Sorry I missed something here: who blamed the Pals for voting in Hamas in Gaza?

Eff me, it was a superb exercise of democracy, and all that comes with it.