reply to post by bigvig316
Obtaining information from capture combatants through some persuasive means is one way that they made America safer.
Yes,
persuasive means I.E. Torture.

Cause thats what America is supposed to be about? Torturing POWs? Call em enemy combatants, illegal
combatants all you like, they are prisoners of war. The second we declared war on a named enemy which was The Taliban/Al Qaeda they were then and
there protected under the Article 3 of the Geneva convention. Naming them illegal combatants doesn't lessen the rights humans have to be free from
torture.
The Iraq war was another matter that needed to be dealt with.
Sure, had to finnish off our once bestest buddy Saddam, sure

Wasn't enough that in the 80's we stabbed him in the back with the Iran Contra
affair, we gotta make up total BS about him and take out our lacky.
And if we went in and stopped them from obtaining Nuclear Arms before they can be used on us or local allies in the Middle East.
Did we find those WMD's by the way? EVER? And what country used nuclear arms in an act of war again, and is the ONLY country to use nuclear arms in
an act of war?
I had none of my civil liberties trampled by them taping phones and watching internet traffic. If they cam to you about something suspicious
then you probably doing something you shouldn't be doing.
Kinda funny eh? That goes allong with that old saying, if you havent done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Hmmm Yea never mind that
due process under the law crap, just get's in the way eh?
What happens when they make something illegal you like to do?