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Re: Torture Thai style
No, I didn't miss it (or your claim to be "out of here", which is an easy but understandable way of avoiding committing yourself).
You, however, appear to be either unable or unwilling to commit yourself to answering what was a simple question from joe552 - I fail to see what can be sarcastic about asking if you consider water boarding torture or not.
Many of those formerly detained at Guantanamo and in the covert CIA prisons (including in Thailand, which was one of the few countries to admit it) in what was essentially government approved kidnapping going by the term "rendition" were not "terrorists" according to even the most broad reaching interpretation of the word. Some were totally innocent and were cases of mistaken identity while others were arrested following information given by informers who turned out to be disgruntled business partners. That did not stop them being tortured and detained for a number of years.
Fortunately for America's credibility Barak Obama has kept his word and made it clear that even the USA is subject not only technically but morally to international conventions. Ending the military tribunals for those held illegally at Guantanamo was a minor step compared with his most recent (but less publicised) move effectively declaring that America is no longer at war and ending the CIA's virtually unlimited use of torture: "Obama nullified every legal order and opinion on interrogations issued by any lawyer in the executive branch after Sept. 11, 2001." (Washington Post, 23 Feb: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03929.html )
Following the CNN reports of the plight of Rohingya refugees ( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 594213.ece), and the initial BBC reports, it will be interesting to see if "Obamark" (Abhisit Vejjajiva) is as willing to take a similar moral stand - and, more to the point, risk taking on the military. Somehow I doubt it.