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April 22, 2009
Lies and Torture, Then More Torture
A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under "pressure" to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.
So the Bushies tortured prisoners in order to justify a war where they engaged in more torture.
Filed under: Iraq || Nexus of Torture and Iraq || Terrorism || Torture
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Posted By Bob Cesca | April 22, 2009 7:35 AM
Comments
you don't get it bob. that torture kept us safe from that thing that didn't exist... what is with you?
Posted by: mattpddm03 at April 22, 2009 7:57 AM
Let's not forget, one of the reasons Bush gave for going to war was that Saddam tortured people.
So we had to torture people to justify a war where we tortured people so we could get somebody else to stop torturing people.
Posted by: Matt McD. at April 22, 2009 10:06 AM
Wish I could say this surprised me, but I thought all along they were doing everything they could to generate "reasons" to do what they wanted--invade Iraq.
Posted by: Elena at April 22, 2009 11:58 AM
Anyone else occasionally terrified at the thought of what we might have been living in had it not been for technology? BushCo managed to wrap up all the worst tendencies of humanity in a big quivering tortilla of subconscious terror, filled with rationalization and smothered in a blanket of cognitive dissonance. Unless they thought you might be One Of Them™ in which case they were far more likely to just stuff the blanket in your mouth and dump water down your face.
Posted by: ElMystico at April 22, 2009 2:08 PM
Dammit! The biggest victim of torture in this whole fiasco is LOGIC...
Posted by: Matt Osborne at April 22, 2009 4:29 PM
