Is a Confession Enough?
Jun. 4th, 2010 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythOkay, so George W. Bush has publicly admitted to ordering people tortured. "“Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I’d do it again to save lives.”"
It didn't save lives. The people that we, as a country, tortured while George W. Bush was president provided no useful intel to prevent future terrorist attacks. We used torture techniques specifically designed by countries like North Korea to force false confessions.
It saved no lives. It prevented no attacks. All it did was make petty, evil people feel good for hurting someone we already held as a helpless prisoner. We threw away our ethics, ideals, and image as the "good guys" for nothing but petty revenge for petty people.
NOW can we put the bastard on trial?
It didn't save lives. The people that we, as a country, tortured while George W. Bush was president provided no useful intel to prevent future terrorist attacks. We used torture techniques specifically designed by countries like North Korea to force false confessions.
It saved no lives. It prevented no attacks. All it did was make petty, evil people feel good for hurting someone we already held as a helpless prisoner. We threw away our ethics, ideals, and image as the "good guys" for nothing but petty revenge for petty people.
NOW can we put the bastard on trial?
