OLBERMANN: Sean, my offer still stands, 1,000 dollars a second. This is not a stunt nor game. Prove to those families you are a man of your word. In fact, prove you are a man.
For that kind of money, I could hang in there for a while……or barring that, how do I contribute?
#54
Guyver said,
51: POW is a technical term used within the military. You can use the term “enemy combatants” if it makes you feel better. That being said if you want to get knit picky, Vietnam was never technically a war but no one seems to care when POW gets mentioned there either.
I’d be one of who doesn’t care if POW gets mentioned referring to Vietnam(a conflict I was against then, said so then and history has proven me right) I’d still say our best guidelines for Vietnam then and with these… enemy combatant detainees/POWs lets check with Orwell for a name… what ever you call them, they are our prisoners and out of the fight, is to follow the Geneva Conventions. any thing less only weakens us.
What would you rather be subjected to: a couple minutes of torturous waterboarding, or the rest of your lifetime with a war disability? What a joke that anyone would even think to bring up the suffering a war amp goes through. Because it’s just not political enough.
But then I’m of the mind that US soldiers should all be dressed in bright red coats because it simply is the old-fashioned concept of what is fair, honourable and civilized. Like those against waterboarding.
RBG
HEY! “my father served in WWII I can say what ever I want”
Anybody here who’s jumped in to defend Sean Hannity is a bigger pussy than Hannity himself.
Get a grip. He said what he said, he’s be happy to be water-boarded for charity.
He needs to put his fat ass where his mouth is and just do it.
#54, Guyver,
POW is a technical term used within the military. You can use the term “enemy combatants” if it makes you feel better.
Not quite. Prisoner of War is used to refer to any combatant captured on the battlefield. That means they are covered under the Geneva Conventions.
If they are not POWs then they are CRIMINAL prisoners. Under American law they have the right to a criminal trial. American law enforcement has been convicted for torture because they elicited confessions of their prisoners through water boarding.
So either way you cut it, water boarding is torture and illegal.
Bobbo,
The pursuit of meanings of words can be a delightful hobby. That is why I use a dictionary so often.
torture
Verb
[-turing, -tured]
1. to cause (someone) extreme physical pain, esp. to extract information, etc.: suspects were regularly tortured and murdered by the secret police
2. to cause (someone) mental anguish
Noun
1. physical or mental anguish
2. the practice of torturing a person
3. something which causes great mental distress: she was going through the torture of a collapsing marriage
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
It has been well established that causing extreme mental anguish or distress is torture.
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