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Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock is advocating torture as a way of elicting information from terrorists. So after the Abu Ghraib debacle, he is still advocating a policy which has been proven to be ineffective. You see Mr. Schock, when someone is delivering electric shocks (no pun intended) to your testicles, you tend to tell them whatever they want to hear, so they will just leave you alone.
Torture is a also a violation of the Geneva Convention, the Military Code of Conduct and several U.S. laws. FBI agents knew, this that is why their superiors asked them to leave when they saw what was going on at Abu Ghraib. Any evidence gathered by torture would be thrown out in court.
I've met people like Schock before, hard-core conservatives who say they favor a muscular military policy, but avoid the military like the plague. Does Schock think that torture is a valid policy to use on American soldiers who are captured by the enemy?
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