Thread: "The US Does Not Torture"

Originally Posted by Neruo

Spoiler for Warning, shocking pictures.:

Voting "No" in this poll means not thinking this is torture:












Yes, shocking photographs, that do prove that this kind of behaviour is common or is reluctantly prevented in the US army, but they are still pictures of real people, in real pain. Claiming this is a 'rare occurrence' or something similar will not change what took place in Abu Ghraib.

The only reason people voted "No" on this poll, and I am glad to see only a few did, was because somehow they are biased. Or can those that do not think US soldiers have tortured assure me that if they had no knowledge of these photos, and thus did not know the people being subjected to these things are suspected terrorists, they would have said: "No, this doesn't look like torture."?

I highly doubt that anyone would not find this to be torture if he or she had no knowledge and bias before saying these photos (or hearing the stories from some released innocent people that undergone similar treatment).

You can not but admit that US soldiers have, at least in the past, seeing these photos, tortured people. Anyone who denies this, either has a very strange definition of torture, or is not thinking rationally but is acting on blind hate for anything their government has labelled "terrorist".

If I am mistaken, and the above does not depict torture, feel free to explain what the definition of torture is, exactly.

Those should at least be within spoiler brackets, by the forum's rules.

Though, i personally couldn't care less.