Be careful what you wish for, Dick

Well, Speaker Pelosi just endorsed the idea (0.00 / 0)

I want to know more about this one too, who suggested torturing a real POW under any body's definition, not to prevent an imminent threat, but to bolster a political position.

At the end of April 2003, not long after the fall of Baghdad, U.S. forces captured an Iraqi who Bush White House officials suspected might provide information of a relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime. Muhammed Khudayr al-Dulaymi was the head of the M-14 section of Mukhabarat, one of Saddam’s secret police organizations.
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This proposed use of enhanced interrogation techniques, or torture, in Iraq was not the only time these methods were actually used to derive information for a purpose other than the stated one—to derive intelligence about imminent threats to the United States following the 9/11 attacks.

NFTT: Support My Team or I Will Dance

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Fri May 15, 2009 at 00:44:10 AM UTC