Re: Red Cross Torture Report
This is an excellent development. Get it all out there. One of the last-ditch defenses of the torture apologists is that it works in a way no other technique can. If that's true, let's hear about it. If, as I suspect, it's yet another false excuse for an inexcusable practice, let's hear about it. Lay it all out, and let the American people decide for themselves.Originally Posted by Furunculus
For instance, by every reliable account, Abu Zubidayah gave up everything of worth before he was tortured. And yet he was waterboarded 83 times in a single month, yielding nothing new. If that isn't psychotic behavior, I don't know what is. Also, imagine what it must have been like to be the CIA operative strapping him down, knowing full well the man was insane, and that he was babbling useless intel in an attempt to stop the pain. I would imagine that the men who did the waterboarding are pretty messed up at this point as well.
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