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Reaping what Bush-****ters have sown...
"Harry Krause" wrote in message news:c3dhc2g=.c230bf50bbc6ad6d357f33f6d4c3cd90@108 4811830.nulluser.com... these techniques entailed a systematic softening up of prisoners through isolation, privations, insults, threats and humiliation-methods that the Red Cross concluded were "tantamount to torture." Isolation, insults, threats, and humiliation are "tantamount to torture"? LOL. The Bush administration created a bold legal framework to justify this system of interrogation, according to internal government memos obtained by NEWSWEEK. What started as a carefully thought-out, if aggressive, policy of interrogation in a covert war-designed mainly for use by a handful of CIA professionals-evolved into ever-more ungoverned tactics that ended up in the hands of untrained MPs in a big, hot war. Originally, Geneva Conventions protections were stripped only from Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. But later Rumsfeld himself, impressed by the success of techniques used against Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly set in motion a process that led to their use in Iraq, even though that war was supposed to have been governed by the Geneva Conventions. Ultimately, reservist MPs, like those at Abu Ghraib, were drawn into a system in which fear and humiliation were used to break prisoners' resistance to interrogation. I'm glad we've gone almost 3 years since a terrorist attack on our soil...despite the promises from bin Laden and al-Zawahiri that the next attack was imminent. I credit those in our government and armed services who took bold steps (outside the usual legal box that confines them) to protect our country. The war on terrorism is an unconventional war being fought by *illegal* combatants as defined by the Geneva Convention. If the terrorists are illegal combatants, then they're not guaranteed the protection granted to "legal" combatants by the Geneva Convention. Humiliation, insult, threats, and isolation are not "torture" anyhow. |
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