Sunday, March 6, 2011
Everything You Need to Know About Torture
Here is a succinct executive summary of everything you need to know about torture:
Yes, Waterboarding IS Torture
- President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, Malcolm Nance (an advisor on terrorism to the US departments of Homeland Security, Special Operations and Intelligence), Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples (the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency) and many other interrogation experts and high-level politicians say that waterboarding is torture
- The United States has always considered waterboarding to be a crime of torture, including when the Japanese did it in WWII (and see this)
- Everyone claiming waterboarding is not torture has changed their tune as soon as they were exposed to even a small dose of it themselves. See this, this and this
- Major General Antonio Taguba: Photos Show Sodomy, Rape and Sexual Assault With Wire and Various Blunt Instruments
- "The Sexual Humiliation Of Iraqi Prisoners…Was Not An Invention Of Maverick Guards, But Part Of A SYSTEM Of Ill-Treatment And Degradation"
- One of the Military's Top Interrogators Says Torture Cost Hundreds 'If Not Thousands' Of American Lives
- One of the Main Sources for the 9/11 Commission Report was Tortured Until He Agreed to Sign a Confession that He Was NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO READ
- 9/11 Mastermind: "During ... My Interrogation I Gave A Lot Of False Information In Order To Satisfy What I Believed The Interrogators Wished To Hear"
- The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - recently said: "The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened"
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I am truly sorry that humanity has created such morons as those who really made no sense in the Zero Hedge post. There are many more of us who really enjoy your blog and your writings. While I believe in constructive criticism, I cannot listen to talking heads who make no sense. That is for the pundits and morons in our world with whom which we must share space. The "IrishSamurai" commenter did sound like Karl Rove himself. Thank you again for your blog and while I may not agree with everything I appreciate you putting it out there and letting the discussion flow. I usually love Zero Hedge. Today is the first day that I was disgusted with its commenters. While I love the site, the commenters are getting a little beyond my patience. Maybe Zero Hedge is not past its time re: comments. Really left a bad taste in my mouth about Zero Hedge's readers. But not all are like that. I am starting to think there is an on purpose army of them set out to ruin the decent discussions that used to occur there and have become rarer. Food for thought. Karl Rove gearing up for election season. He is dangerous. Have a great week as this is the beginning of the last underworld of the Mayan calendar. No matter what anyone believes. Interesting chaotic times.
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