Quote Originally Posted by pisshead
[align=left]If it was good enough for the Nazis to torture their political foes then it's good enough for us, as Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz made clear last week.
"There are some who claim that torture is a nonissue because it never works -- it only produces false information," wrote Dershowitz in the Wall Street Journal. "This is simply not true, as evidenced by the many decent members of the French Resistance who, under Nazi torture, disclosed the locations of their closest friends and relatives."
Wonderful - forget about those antiquated Geneva Conventions - let's use what the Nazis did as a role model for how to conduct ourselves and see where it gets us. [/align]

[align=left]Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer![/align]
There they go again with the Nazis. I haven't yet seen them make comparisons between vaccinations and gassing, but I'm sure they'll get around to that in time.

The use of torture is certainly justifiable to obtain vital information when lives are at stake. Do you think that violent acts, from mass murder to sawing hostages' heads off, committed by terrorist groups such as al quada, are approved by the Geneva Convention?