Get the jumper cables, electrodes, bamboo shoots and water board ready

Or they were sold to us by the local warlord for $1000.
We should not because it doesn't work. We should not torture because it is not who and what we are. We certainly should not torture just because a feckless infant wants to prove that he can do anything he wants.
A three-word euphemism doesn't make torture anything less than torture. If someone strapped you to a board upside down, wrapped your face in plastic, and poured water on you until you nearly drowned, would you consider it torture?
Please explain why not.

UPDATE:
The president thinks really hard: " "Common Article III says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It's very vague. "What does that mean, 'outrages upon human dignity'?"
Work on it, foof.
And Jesus is his favorite philosopher, remember?

 

Given the Moral equality between basic American values and basic Muslim values, torure is appropriate. Maybe a couple of videotaped beheading by our boys at Gitmo on some Muslims would give pause to the continued Muslim atrocities committed on a daily basis. I'm sure the lovely humans raping and pilaging Darfur and the it's suburbs are anxiously awaiting the upcoming Senate Hearing on Due Process and the Geneva Convention.

Any chance that if the we put the detainees up at the Holiday Inn Express in San Diego, provide them with gift cards to Abacrombie & Fitch, Olive Garden and Best Buy that the Muslims would stop their suicide bombings of other Muslims?

Fuck Them.

 

"The observations of the judicious Blackstone, in reference to the latter, are well worthy of recital: "To bereave a man of life, [says he] or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government."

Alexander Hamilton
Federalist 84.

Fuck him too, I guess.