Majority of people around the world reject torture: poll

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/October/theworld_October702.xml§ion=theworld

<snip>Some 59 percent of the people surveyed declined to endorse torture, while 29 percent said governments around the world should be given some leeway in trying to elicit intelligence. snip

Italians were the most against the use of torture (81 percent), followed by Australia and France (75 percent each), Canada (74 percent), Britain (72 percent) and Germany (71 percent).

By contrast, Israelis were the most in favour of giving their government flexbility in the use of torture, with 43 percent supporting the notion, compared to 48 percent opposed to the use of torture.

In the United States, where President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed a controversial law allowing secret overseas CIA prisons, harsh interrogation tactics, and military trials as weapons against suspected terrorists, 58 percent of respondents opposed the use of torture.

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1. "Harsh interrogation tactics"

Sh*t by any other name still reeks.

[lonestarnot]

2. We need to start doing some rejecting of it here in this war culture.

[LaPera]

3. Fucking torture, are you kidding...who would approve, but psychopaths

like little boy killer Bush...they drool & need it and love it... lying, evil, wicked fucks...these are really truly sick fucks we call our prez...

They are described by power... Very sick fucks!

[treestar]

4. Well, gee, who cares what foreigners think?

They aren't human. They don't have rights. Only Americans have rights.

:sarcasm: