Reply #26: I only rape woman who "deserve" it.

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(Obviously sarcasm, for those who don't get it)

For at least 60 years the U.S. has tortured, raped and murdered, either directly or indirectly, people of the Middle East. We have subverted governments, installed dictators, assassinated elected officials. We have stolen natural resources and enslaved entire populations.
This policy and practice is because of people like Dick Cheney.
It is also the reason 9/11 took place.

If we wish to prevent bad things like 9/11 from happening, imprison people like Dick Cheney, do not continue their policies because it might prevent retaliation.

Torture is wrong not because it fails to provide reliable information, although it does so fail.
Torture is wrong not because the end goal immoral, although if the end goal is to continue to subjugate the Middle East, that end goal is immoral.
Torture is wrong because it is inhumane. Period.

Think about the actuality of torture. Image yourself standing there beating and kicking another human being. That person is chained and weak, unable to defend themselves. They are weeping and vomiting and bleeding and begging for mercy. You continue to beat them, you kick them, you hit them, you throw them into walls, you electrocute them, you scream obscenities at them.
Seriously, think of yourself in that position. If you realize that you could not do that, you could not treat another person like that, then think of the people who did, and still do, that. Think about their moral character. Think about what type of person they must be that they CAN do that.
Now, let's stop arguing about who should be punished. Everyone from Bush down to the doctors who stood by helping.
Every last one of them should be imprisoned.