Teribus, have you ever read accounts of people who have been tortured? Have you ever met someone who was subjected to mental or physical torture? I have, and for all the victims I met, there is an anguish in their eyes, which years later, does not go away. I will not repeat some of the things these people told me they were subjected to, because it makes my stomach nauseous. Suffice it to say, I cannot, or will not ever approve of the use of torture in any means. Before 9/11 I had debates with people about the use of torture as a means of extracting crucial information at a critical time. Think of it like a bad Hollywood movie, if we can torture this guy, he'll tell us where the bomb is, and we can save thousands of lives. In reality, it won't work like that, plans can be changed, or when someone like Kahlid Sheik Mohamed is captured, they immediately go to Plan B, which renders information gleaned from torture as unuseful.