Comments on: Would Romney bring back torture?

By: BillORights

BillORights — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:37:24 +0000

Thanks, Reuters, for showing your true colors. Your editor must have been asleep at the wheel to allow this garbage posing as journalism be published under your banner. You have lost whatever credibility you may have had with this undisguised Obama-worshipping piece of…propaganda. You should follow this up with photoshopped pictures of Romney eating babies.

By: NickVA

NickVA — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:38:58 +0000

What kind of yellow journalism is this nonesense. There is no provenance for this memo. Only the claim of the author that it comes from a Romney advisor. How does the author come to this conclusion? Because Dick Cheney allegedly espoused similar positions in the memo and Liz Cheney is a Romney advisor. Therefore a Romney advisor penned the memo. What a complete and utter joke journalism in America has become. The fact that any self-respecting editor approved the printing of this garbage is appauling. Any high school journalism teacher would give a failing grade for this trash.

By: NilsPils

NilsPils — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:33:45 +0000

This article is a shameless attempt to make news rather than report it.

By: CVMpls

CVMpls — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:07:30 +0000

Thank you for this column. Torture rehabilitation centers, like the Center for Victims of Torture, are very familiar with the forms of abuse you describe. Sadly, they are quite common and often used by repressive regimes worldwide because they do not leave marks, making it more difficult to document abuse. It’s important to note that these abuses (sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation, stress positions, mock execution) are commonly used in combination to increase the terror and harm. From a clinical, scientific and medical perspective, these abuses have harmful health consequences and rise to the level of torture and cruel treatment.

By: matthewslyman

matthewslyman — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:43:12 +0000

Some of the commentators appear not to have read the whole article! The concluding statements appear to answer the question asked in the title…

By: northwords

northwords — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:02:03 +0000

A speculative article, sure, but unfortunately plausible. In The War On Terror (TWOT) the repubs have a hard time differentiating themselves from what Obama is doing. The willingness to promote and defend torture is one of the few differences between the two parties’ policies on TWOT. That, along with evidence cited here that some of Romney’s advisers would like him to receive moral guidance from Dick Cheney, mean that the return of torture to official policy might not be far away.

By: Calfri

Calfri — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:36:20 +0000

@zocdoc

Yes, you would, but you have to respect the principle of no torture, because without it you as a leader would end up torturing people for lots of reasons. There’s a slippery slope there, in other words. In the real world we can see how torture has been used recently for lots of reasons.

By: tomwinans

tomwinans — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:12:57 +0000

How silly is this speculative article?

No one can say one way or the other except Mitt Romney. Mr. Obama, likewise, answers for himself. Do you believe Mr. Obama does not endorse torture in special circumstances?

By: zotdoc

zotdoc — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:33:15 +0000

If the suspect knew where the nuclear bomb was hidden and what time it would go off – would you as the leader authorize torture to try to find out? And what would the people say of the leader who did not torture out of priciple and a nuclear holocaust resulted?

By: Caspary

Caspary — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:25:26 +0000

Bush is a Christian, Blair is a Christian (and a fervent one if we are to believe him). But the problems the world faces are from religious zealots like Romney. They are using religion to further their own selfish needs. Look at Tony Blair- who knew he would turn out that way? He’s damaged the world and what a shame… Romney would be worse.