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==Overview==
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==About==
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[[Torture]], while often billed as (and believed strongly by much of the public to be) a tool for obtaining vital information from captured enemies, is in fact primarily a tool for inspiring fear in the enemy and sometimes for obtaining false confessions for use as [[propaganda]].
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Despite repeated claims of those who use torture, there is no evidence that it actually works to obtain accurate information; its victims will say whatever they think the torturers want to hear.
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More importantly, though, those who use it are lowering themselves to the moral level of the [[terrorist]]s they claim to be fighting.
 
==Reference==
 
==Reference==
* {{wikipedia|Torture}}
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* {{wikipedia}}
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* {{conservapedia}}
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* <s>{{dkosopedia}}</s> no article as of 2008-01-30
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** [[dkosopedia:Torture Memos|Torture Memos]]
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* <s>{{sourcewatch}}</s> no article as of 2008-01-30
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==Related Pages==
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* '''United States''':
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** [[Bush-Cheney administration/torture|Use of torture by the Bush-Cheney administration]]
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*** [[Abu Ghraib abuses]]
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** [[US/gov/CIA/torture/report|Senate report on CIA use of torture]]
 
==Links==
 
==Links==
 
* '''2005-12-18''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html Torture's Long Shadow] by Vladimir Bukovsky (Washington Post)
 
* '''2005-12-18''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html Torture's Long Shadow] by Vladimir Bukovsky (Washington Post)
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===Filed Links===
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Latest revision as of 14:26, 15 December 2014

About

Torture, while often billed as (and believed strongly by much of the public to be) a tool for obtaining vital information from captured enemies, is in fact primarily a tool for inspiring fear in the enemy and sometimes for obtaining false confessions for use as propaganda.

Despite repeated claims of those who use torture, there is no evidence that it actually works to obtain accurate information; its victims will say whatever they think the torturers want to hear.

More importantly, though, those who use it are lowering themselves to the moral level of the terrorists they claim to be fighting.

Reference

Related Pages

Links

Filed Links

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