German detainees

Not that anyone on our side would breach the Geneva Conventions now , you understand

No doubt our men thought that these detainees would not give them fanciful answers but had valuable information. Can anyone doubt that this behaviour occurred on all sides in WW2 ?

Dem Brits!!!

I don't doubt that torture happened with all wars, but it could be hidden better than it can today. I believe torture will continue because people' frames of mind are changing with the times.

I think we should beat the living daylights out of every criminal we catch, and then begin the interrogations.

Generally, all agree that torture doesn't work because men will make up anything to stop the pain. But it would sure be a morale booster to know that we have an opportunity to physically cripple men who commit barbarities and won't ever be able to do them again.

The biggest drag on morale is the pantiwaste liberal base campaigning to allow our enemies to shoot at us indiscriminately while we try our best to follow insane fairness rules.

(These are the same liberals who keep chanting, "Support the troops! Support the troops!" If it were legal, we'd run them through the system, too, to put a stop to the dangerous politics they play.)

1)How do we know that any given man or woman captured has committed barbarities? Or do we beat them all on the 'principle' that they must be guilty of something otherwise they couldn't be captured?
2) Logically they must, by that reasoning, have at least agreed to kill American soldiers or innocent civilians and may even have been on the way to doing so. The penalty for conspiring to murder could be death. So why then do we not put all such captives to death,then and there or later, without trial ? Or is that going too far? If so, why is it going too far?

By the way this argument is what Saddam's defence is to killing over a hundred people in a town where someone tried to assassinate him viz. that these people all wanted his death and agreed that ought to happen, so when there was an attempt they could all be put to death, without more than an 'investigation',with no formal trial, as conspirators to assassinate the head of state.