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If you came across this on a message board, what would your un-censored response be...
....torture should be used as an interrogation form because when it has been used in the past, it worked. There is no mistaking that September 11th, 2001, was a horrible American tragedy; however, it did usher in more advances in the intelligence-gathering agencies like the C.I.A. America was broken and wondering if it would ever be put back together again, but its intelligence agencies stayed strong and did what whatever necessary in America?s time of need. They jumped into action and captured one of the main masterminds behind the 9-11 attacks and the killer of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by al Qaeda while he was in Pakistan investigating and was beheaded personally by Mohammed. Mohammed was tortured because he had important information that could save millions of lives; being so high up in al Qaeda he knew everything there was to know about the organization, including details on future attacks. ?Khalid Sheikh Mohammed seemed smug about U.S. and British preparations for war against [Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein. ?Let the Iraq War begin,? he said. ?The U.S. forces will be targeted inside their bases in the [Persian Gulf]. I don't have any specific information, but my sixth sense is telling me that you will get the news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait.? Indeed, in the following months al-Qaeda carried out a murderous attack in Saudi Arabia? (Bowden, ?Stress and Duress?). With Mohammed knowing as much as he did, and not talking, torture becomes the best option of getting the life-saving information needed to prevent other attacks. ?We had a lot of blind spots after the attacks on our country. We didn't know about al-Qaeda's plans, but Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few others did know. And with many thousands of innocent lives potentially in the balance, we didn't think it made sense to let the terrorists answer questions in their own good time, if they answered them at all? (Cheney, ?Enhanced Interrogation Helps?). The information learned from the interrogations hasn?t been released, only that torture methods were used to receive them; however Richard Cheney, the Vice President of the United States at the time this was happening, reported that there were many terrorist attacks that were avoided and stopped by the information gained by Mohammed and other terrorists? confessions. If torture has worked considerably in the past, why wouldn?t it be used as an interrogation method now? When something works, and helps save a country from terrorists, why not keep using it?
....torture should be used as an interrogation form because when it has been used in the past, it worked. There is no mistaking that September 11th, 2001, was a horrible American tragedy; however, it did usher in more advances in the intelligence-gathering agencies like the C.I.A. America was broken and wondering if it would ever be put back together again, but its intelligence agencies stayed strong and did what whatever necessary in America?s time of need. They jumped into action and captured one of the main masterminds behind the 9-11 attacks and the killer of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by al Qaeda while he was in Pakistan investigating and was beheaded personally by Mohammed. Mohammed was tortured because he had important information that could save millions of lives; being so high up in al Qaeda he knew everything there was to know about the organization, including details on future attacks. ?Khalid Sheikh Mohammed seemed smug about U.S. and British preparations for war against [Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein. ?Let the Iraq War begin,? he said. ?The U.S. forces will be targeted inside their bases in the [Persian Gulf]. I don't have any specific information, but my sixth sense is telling me that you will get the news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait.? Indeed, in the following months al-Qaeda carried out a murderous attack in Saudi Arabia? (Bowden, ?Stress and Duress?). With Mohammed knowing as much as he did, and not talking, torture becomes the best option of getting the life-saving information needed to prevent other attacks. ?We had a lot of blind spots after the attacks on our country. We didn't know about al-Qaeda's plans, but Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a few others did know. And with many thousands of innocent lives potentially in the balance, we didn't think it made sense to let the terrorists answer questions in their own good time, if they answered them at all? (Cheney, ?Enhanced Interrogation Helps?). The information learned from the interrogations hasn?t been released, only that torture methods were used to receive them; however Richard Cheney, the Vice President of the United States at the time this was happening, reported that there were many terrorist attacks that were avoided and stopped by the information gained by Mohammed and other terrorists? confessions. If torture has worked considerably in the past, why wouldn?t it be used as an interrogation method now? When something works, and helps save a country from terrorists, why not keep using it?