Reply #19: I'm really new to this and this is thick reading but important

[toughboy]

"race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria."

What does it mean when they say birth? I think if its international rules that it means the place where you were born or maybe the ethnic group or groups of your parents.

I don't understand why anyone would ever need to torture anyone else anyway. I thought we are the smartest and best military in the world. We don't have ways to get information other than torturing people who are probably already hurting badly or totally flipped out.

It's really shameful that our President and those Senators who are supposed to keep alive the decent things about this country would support this. Does this mean they will torture people coming to this country illegal because they are not Americans? It all sounds like a very big mistake that people make when they are losing their way or they are really angry and bitter.