On the 5th of November 2008, Michael Hayden, the director of the CIA, admitted the use of waterboarding during the Iraq war. Waterboarding is a technique simulating drowning in order to obtain informations.
On, the 8th of March 2008, G.W. Bush vetoed a bill voted by the Congress which aim was to forbid this practice.
And, on November 2010, the former President recognized that he has personally authorized this technique. He refused to consider waterboarding as a real torture. However, it’s very contestable. Like the President Obama, many people disagree with this interpretation.
Torture has always been a burning issue. It has ever been a current reality. And the question whether torture can be used to save innocents’ lives is still today a polemical topic.
As for as I’m concerned, torture can’t be justified in any cases. It has to be condemned because it is contrary to human dignity.
In fact, torture can’t be considered as an optimal means of saving innocents’ lives, neither as a sure way to make someone speak. It’s true that the person being tortured will just say what he thinks the torturer wants to hear whether it is true or not.
But, there is a thing we can be sure: torture destroys a man. And perhaps, an innocent man.
So, forbidding torture is a moral necessity for human dignity. And that’s why, if proved responsible in this practice, G. W. Bush has to be prosecuted. And here, it’s a moral necessity for justice.
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