The Obama Administration has released reports within the past week, the latest being within the past 24 hours, that specifically detail and prove the Bush Administration's use of torture as interrogation to elicit information from detainees regarding an association between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda in order to INVADE and start a WAR in Iraq:
Rachel explains it very well - thoroughly and clearly. I highly recommend watching this 13-minute clip: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#30356488
There are also many articles to be found online: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22report.html?fta=y
I, for one, am ENRAGED!!!
Here are some facts:
a) The same torture interrogation techniques were being used in the military and the CIA, despite the fact that they are separate governmental structures.
b) This is because they both respond to the top - that big, white house.
c) In other words, these commands were coming Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.
d) They had lawyers try to redefine laws in order to somehow make it OK to torture people.
e) They wanted to find a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda. After failing to find a connection they called for new tactics - TORTURE - in order to persuade prisoners to confess to that connection so that they could invade Iraq and start a war.
f) Some of the "interrogation techniques" they used were based off of torture techniques used by Communist China and in the Korean War in order to get a false confession from prisoners of war and supplant their own propaganda.
In other words, the Bush Administration really did LIE their way into Iraq.
They did not just invade Iraq based on false pretenses, but they COMPLETELY FABRICATED those pretenses!
So many people have DIED because of their agenda.
And just - WHAT?!?! asldkf;alskdjf;aklsdj;klja;?!?! How can you sleep at night knowing that you are ordering someone to brutally torture another human being in order to get a false confession in order to invade a country?!
Or just bottom line, how can you order someone to brutally torture another person, regardless of all of that other shit?
That is CRIMINAL. EVIL. APPALLING. DISGUSTING. HEINOUS.
And wanna know the irony of it all? These memos were released from the JUSTICE department. That's some 1984 bullshit right there.
Those government officials should be TRIED, CONVICTED, and SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR LIFE!
Time For A Change
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