Obama vows no torture in war against terrorism

Saturday 10th January, 06:06 AM JST

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techall at 10:10 AM JST - 10th January

Better really define what "torture" is and have a plan-B. Turn them over to someone who extract the info for us.
bebert at 10:43 AM JST - 10th January

That is the real question. Will Obama let our allies, like the Egyptians, do our torture for us, like they did during the Clinton administration. My guess is "yes" and that's not positive news for future enemies of the United States.
SuperLib at 11:15 AM JST - 10th January

Yeah, that really is the question of the hour. Will Obama really seek to end torture, or will he just adopt the Canadian-European model?
smithinjapan at 11:29 AM JST - 10th January

Finally some morals coming back the US government. Now they can actually lead.
Sarge at 11:49 AM JST - 10th January

Does this include not forcing our enemies to listen to Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits?
skipthesong at 12:17 PM JST - 10th January

Now they can actually lead" I don't want to lead! Morals, man that's a bad word.
skipthesong at 12:23 PM JST - 10th January

what are they going to do when they have to get information, and they know a person knows that info?

I hope this is not going to be used against us.
Triumvere at 02:43 PM JST - 10th January

Bravo.
skipthesong at 02:55 PM JST - 10th January

and while we are at, if we are going to drop torture, I hope it doesn't go in full reverse where we are going to put them in posh villas on the beach, with TVs and Playstations like we have for a few others.
Sarge at 07:13 PM JST - 10th January

"I hope it doesn't go in full reverse where we are going to put them in posh villas on the beach"

Like Club Gitmo?
SuperLib at 10:05 PM JST - 10th January

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-obama-intel10-2009jan10,0,6030501.story

Yep, looks like we are heading towards a closure of US facilities and into increased rendition.
HonestDictator at 03:00 AM JST - 11th January

Yeesh, how gullible can you guys be??? Lip service at face value? Like some of the wiser people posting here, all thats gonna happen is they get turned over to someone who doesn't have qualms about torturing, and doesn't care what others think.
Everton2 at 06:48 AM JST - 11th January

The Gitmo posting for some soldiers was regarded as a vacation. A place for the most sadistic in the US military to put their sociopathic tendencies into practice. These are the soldiers who are destine to eventually commit some heinous crime on the mainland. The kind that the media describe as having been a good soldier but is at a lost as to why he killed his entire family and the neighbor he hardly new.
Sarge at 10:12 AM JST - 11th January

Everton2 - The Gitmo posting for some detainees was and is regarded as a welcome relief fron the miserable existence they had before they were captured ( not killed or tortured ). At Club Gitmo they get three square meals a day, a bed and a copy of the Koran, whereas before all they got was the last item.
Gombei424Canada at 10:34 AM JST - 11th January

Well, at last the US government has a president who can end so-called terrorism. We all know that bush never could because he was a total failure and always will be and neither could his daddy or nixon or reagan or any republican. Clinton almost did but bush's cronies had him impeached. Anyway, said terrorism is a product of economic injustice. Everybody knows waterboarding doesn7t work and just creates thousands more terrorists even though 99.999999 percent of Muslims ABHOR violence.