Published: 29 Jun 10 08:01 CET | Print version
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Germany, along with Britain and France, uses foreign intelligence obtained through torture in the fight against terrorism, a new report from Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
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Go ahead and play nice Europeans, then when your soldiers get their butt kicked or civiliand get blown up in your cities, who are you going to blame?
Something tells me that those maniacs don't just come clean with valuable info when asked polietly.
However, in the movie Resevoir Dogs, Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn) says
"You beat on this (guy) enough, he'll tell you he started the Chicago fire. That don't necessarily make it so!"
I do think there is some truth to that.
I'm also interested in reading their comments on how the countries named in the article are not bound by the Geneva Conventions' prohibition of torture. I suspect their arguments will be a creative as they will be inflammatory.
May you live in interesting times.
99.99% of the time, no form of torture is necessary to get the info. that the good guys need.
.01 % of the time, some form of torture is necessary to crack an idiot who would rather kill 200 innocent kids than provide any information. If it didn't work, no one would use it.
Get out of your playpens and into the real world. These fundamentalist Muslim nuts are coming to spread their fundamentalism, regardless of whether you have soldiers overseas or not. You can either use every tool available to you to defeat them, or you can play the moral dummy and risk watching the next hijacked airplane land in the Marienplatz. Your choice.