Do you believe Jose Padilla was tortured by CIA? I do and have proof that they do this In America On Us soil!?
960124
I think that the term terrorist is being widely applied, and now is another excuse for the powers that be to flaunt our Constitutional rights.  \n\nI think that the US should respect and abide by the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and not torture, nor deprive anyone of their due process.  As to the Guantanamo and other prisoners, we are at war, and it takes a while to process that many prisoners.  But justice should be meted out according to our own values and ethics.
427230
Yes, I do.  It's very sobering to become a sceptical person about our government and to realize that they would knowingly condone this heinous act of murder.\nI once was one who believed that Al-Qaeda was soley behind 9/11.  Then about 2 months ago my wife brought home a DVD that reexamined all the evidence about how the WTC buildings collapsed, and it also showed a lot about the Pentagon attack.  Yes, I once was a person who thought that all these "conspiracy theorists" were just a bunch of nut cakes.  But, again, the physical evidence about what happened is quite shocking. \nThe web page below contains a lot of technical articles.  It is also easy to find other web sites that present a lot of information.  If you go to an "official" web site about 9/11, it's interesting to see how they side-step the hard questions that are being presented and cannot be sufficiently answered by jets simply crashing into buildings.\nSo, what does all of this mean?  We, the American public, have been duped.  But, what does that really change?  Has any of our personal lives really changed all that much?  How much of a difference does it personally make to us if it was Al-Qaeda or our own government that murdered innocent American lives?\nAnd so, we go on.  We live each day.  I ask myself what can I possibly do to get the truth out?  Being on the other side, one of the "conspiracy" nuts, is hard .. it's hard because no one wants to believe you.
794186
Yes I am concerned, but Congress rolled over and it is legal to torture....which I think makes us all the more unsafer. Think of a soldier captured and getting tortured.
368225
who did it? well it wasnt the butler in the hallway wilh a candlestick. how many different arab leaders are there in U.A.E.?i wouldnt know.however, it had to be a terrorist group of the arab world. look at the names listed they were all arabic.as for the official story, what we read and saw on the tube was as official as it gets.information concerning this tragic day possibly was edited just to be on the safe side. what i mean is that the story probably had more to it than what was said ,but with the turmoil in the world today, the increasing price of oil and fingers pointed at everyone, why say anything to start trouble? personally i dont think our country is the most advanced in defense or technology.our computers are made up of japans experts and as far as i know our defense systems are made with the same technology. i think there a a few small nations in the world that have come a long way as we have but secrets must be kept.hopefully im wrong but,i have read and surfed the web,i had found many items of interest that are questionable.im not a trouble maker and i think any information gotten will be sufficient enough to sustain my curiosity. i served during vietnam and i enlisted and would do it again. this country is my home and i was proud to serve.
43472
Okay, Torture is never right, and American should not support it or "contract out" the torture with another state.  That said, we should be open to information passed to us by other countries.  MOST middle eastern countries allow and encourage torture, so do we have no allies at all?  Tough ethical question, no real answer.
1027088
the Bush administration knows psychological warfare applied on its own citizens... they're raking in billions of dollars out of them.. so Americans should know this...
489254
Yes declassifying a CIA agent's information (putting their life in danger!) and then pretending he didn't know about it is beyond wrong... this is only one reason for him to be tried for treason.
348762
I agree.  It is only logical when you look at the facts from their story that this Islamic government had been doing evil things ever since they took over the power.  Do not forget that they took Americans in Iran for hostages for over 200 days after their so called Islamic Revolution.
1177015
I am an American. Gitmo is too good to the prisoners as it is. They want to kill Americans and they get treated better than Americans in prison. Anybody that wants to close Gitmo or make it easier or let them go, here is a challenge: Let them come live with you and your family, I didn't think so. If you think they are treated badly, go there and take care of them personally, and after they kill you and yours we will say, told ya so. Get a life people our enimies want you dead too.  Why do you want them to kill Americans?
881247
Guantanamo Bay is a US Military base in Cuba.  It is NOT on sovereign US territory.\n\nNo one has ever been tortured there.
1158969
Kenndy Curse my a$$, what a bunch of drunken sots!  Do you have ANY idea how the Kennedy's go their money????  They were BOOTLEGGERS!  The only CURSE they have is STUPIDITY.\n\nIt took less time for the US military to find Sadaam in his hidey hole, than it did for Teddy to report his "accident" and HE LEFT HER IN THE COCK A DOODY CAR!
259966
by any means necessary !... these are terrorist  , not an army engaged in warfare with us.. they  do not deserve or are entitled to the  Geneva convention rights that are extended in war time. how do they interrogate the ones that they capture ???   BY CUTTING OFF THEIR HEADS !..   I don't recall that method of being part of the Geneva convention ... do you ??... so here we are  treating them  with   respect  and getting  no information  while they use any cruel means they choose  and does the media   focus on that?? no..these are criminals ,  not soldiers, and  these crimes  do not come under are justice system, they are not entitled to a lawyer or legal procedures  that  exist in our country..  these crimes are not taking place in our country.. if they were  then  they would be entitled   to and   fall under our legal system. its easy to judge   our soldiers based on  what the media chooses to report, with out actually being there ,  and experiencing what they go thru on a daily basis   while they are  attacked  by  these terrorists living in a country they are  there to help.Im not saying we should be as sick or as cruel as they are to us, because we are above that... but  we should have more freedom  to interrogate them  with out the media sitting on their shoulders and making judgements they have no right to do ( back seat driving ! )....that being said...  we should send hilary clinton over there and make them listen to her  presidential campaign speeches   she  is most likely writing..... that would  be cruel and unusual punishment for me ! lol....
310886
As an American, it disgusts me. Not so much that people who are actually guilty of the crimes for which they have been accused are at Guantanamo, but because of the number of people who i'm sure AREN'T guilty and are being held there, without any charges being brought against them. \n\nI understand that a number of these people are evil. I understand that they want to murder me, and those I love, simply because i'm an American. I understand how horrible it is. But I also understand the nation that our Founding Fathers created. And their reasons for doing so. These men need to be charged, or let go. They should get their day in court. The ones who may NOT be guilty deserve that. \n\nAs an American, I like to look to our Founding Fathers for an example. They are the spirit of the United States of America. These men went to war, a war they knew they could very well die in and lose, for liberty. For freedom. For basic FAIRNESS. They were more afraid of living with no rights, living with injustice then they were of death. \n\nIt makes me ask myself, what's wrong with Americans these days? Are we so afraid of death that we are willing to give up what MAKES us American. just to gain a few more breaths on this Earth? I'm more afraid of what our own government can do if given too much power then I am of what any al qaeda could ever hope to do. A terrorist can kill me, but the loss of our spirit, the spirit of freedom and fairness, would break me.\n\nDeath doesn't scare me as much as the thought of what kind of "America" is going to be left for my daughter, and future grandchildren, if we keep going down this dark road Bush has led us down. History has proven where this road leads. And it isn't to happiness.
1097811
The CIA had an opening for an assassin. After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists...Two men and a woman. \n\nFor the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. "We must know that you will follow your \ninstructions, no matter what the circumstances. Inside of this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill Her!!!" The man said, "You can't be serious. I could never shoot my wife." The agent said, "Then you're not the right man for this job." \nThe second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the man came out with tears in his eyes." I tried, but I can't kill my wife." The agent said, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home." \n\nFinally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions, to kill her husband. She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, \none shot after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls. \n\nAfter a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman. She wiped the sweat from her brow, and said, "This gun is loaded with blanks. I had to beat him to death with the chair." \n\nMoral: Women are evil. Don't mess with them \n\nq.e.d.
68173
Yes..I have seen the vid...makes ya go hmmm...certainly an out of ordinary video..it was seen and recorded in Mexico...there have been numerous reports...and until last year no video..It is truly hard to say what it is...but it is very strange...almost like a jet pack...but..who really knows for now..I prefer to keep an open mind on things and not assume until more proof is shown..but as I said..the vid is interesting to say the least.
582066
I think it's time we nut kick Vicente Fox. There have been numerous incursions of our land by both the Mexican military and federales who are escorting illegals and drug runners into the US. They have fired on Border Patrol Agents and local Law Enforcement Officers. This has been outlined by Arizona Rep Tom Tancredo on various news channels, yet it still goes on! The link from fireman shows the contempt this scum has for us, and it's still tolerated. JD is right again - time to lock and load! The only thing that's brown on my land that I won't shoot is my dogs! God Bless the USA!!!
645205
Guatanamo Bay should be shut down immediately.  It is illegal and it is immoral.\n\nWe know for a fact people are being tortured there, thats not even debatable. \n\nIt is not justified because the people we tortured not only did not give up any information about any hypothetical, extremely low probability scenario of a "ticking bomb".  \n\nRead the documents recently released, many of these people were simply swooped up in dragnet style raids by ignorant people who didn't know what they were looking for in the first place, total incompetance. \n\nAlso, consider how the use of torture of innocents playes out in the theater of war.  It is used as a psychological weapon on people, just like good cop bad cop, they get people to inform (or they thought they would, they didn't) on supposed Taliban, or Osama, or insurgents, it all was a botch... a completely asanine idea.  Now we have people there for years without a lawyer, without due process, without rights being tortured.  The reason we signed on to many treaties against such measures is to create a standard of humanity.  This war should let you know where our Great Leader (the decider) and his confused minions stand on human rights and on morality.  They are not Christians, and that is what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Bushie in the letter.