'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
Anyone will say anything under torture.
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