Comments on: We don’t torture? http://deepblade.net/journal/2006/09/we-dont-torture.html Cutting through the effects of the US empire Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Andrea Lawrence-Stuart http://deepblade.net/journal/2006/09/we-dont-torture.html#comment-662 Andrea Lawrence-Stuart Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:40:22 +0000 http://deepblade.net/journal/2006/09/we-dont-torture.html#comment-662 To expect a good piece of information from someone hanging by his hands is ludicrous. Why does the administration stick to that tactic? Not only do they get poor information out of the poor souls just to get the pain to stop, but why torture in the first place and have it CONDONED, even ENCOURAGED by the harsh Bush administration? It is barbaric, medieval, feudal and cruel and that it is being done in the 21st Century, not the middle ages, makes it more incredible. Why would anyone, let alone the Republican Senate vote on such treatment? Why did SENATOR JOHN McCAIN cave in to the Bush doctrine on torture? He--who knows torture so intimately he can't bear to even think of it--finally bowed to that horrid doctrine. Now in Congress there are no more heroes in the Republican party, only slaves, puppets, money dangling in front of them. Waht broke him? Oh, yes, it's an election year. Now he, along with the rest of the Republican party, chooses to put his head in the sand saying there's no torture going on that he was wrong after all. To simply say you believe there is no torture going on and take sides with the Bush Gang on party lines does not make it so. Don't they do their homework, read the papers, listen to and watch news every day? The Republican leadership is being known throughout the country as the party of barbarism and cruelty. The people elected these officials who claim to be caring and compassionate, and they claim to be Christians. I am not a Christian for the same reason Bertrand Russell wasn't, but if you are a Christian, or a Muslim or what have you, at least be a good one. Back in WWII and Korea and past wars we went by the Geneva Convention, not deviating from it. We never put those German war criminals in pyramids and made them masturbate one another to get information. Why are we changing our tactics now? Because Bush says 9-11 changed everything and it is a war on terror, not on a country? He quipped, back in 2000, just after his inauguration, "It'd be a heckuva lot easier if this was a dictatorship, and I'd be the dictator." To set those low standards and capture and detain anyone for as long as we want (that alone is a form of torture--the thought of never seeing one's family again), and deprive them of sleep, subject them to atrocities, is supposed to elicit good intelligence from them. What an incredibly outrageous mindset. Terror is a tactic, a tool. Harlan Cleveland, a fellow of the ILF (International Leadership Forum), contributes to a blog called ILF Post (www.ilfpost.org) and he wrote an article called "War Against a Tool?" I highly recommend it, and leave him a comment. To expect a good piece of information from someone hanging by his hands is ludicrous. Why does the administration stick to that tactic? Not only do they get poor information out of the poor souls just to get the pain to stop, but why torture in the first place and have it CONDONED, even ENCOURAGED by the harsh Bush administration? It is barbaric, medieval, feudal and cruel and that it is being done in the 21st Century, not the middle ages, makes it more incredible. Why would anyone, let alone the Republican Senate vote on such treatment? Why did SENATOR JOHN McCAIN cave in to the Bush doctrine on torture? He–who knows torture so intimately he can’t bear to even think of it–finally bowed to that horrid doctrine. Now in Congress there are no more heroes in the Republican party, only slaves, puppets, money dangling in front of them. Waht broke him? Oh, yes, it’s an election year. Now he, along with the rest of the Republican party, chooses to put his head in the sand saying there’s no torture going on that he was wrong after all. To simply say you believe there is no torture going on and take sides with the Bush Gang on party lines does not make it so. Don’t they do their homework, read the papers, listen to and watch news every day? The Republican leadership is being known throughout the country as the party of barbarism and cruelty. The people elected these officials who claim to be caring and compassionate, and they claim to be Christians. I am not a Christian for the same reason Bertrand Russell wasn’t, but if you are a Christian, or a Muslim or what have you, at least be a good one. Back in WWII and Korea and past wars we went by the Geneva Convention, not deviating from it. We never put those German war criminals in pyramids and made them masturbate one another to get information. Why are we changing our tactics now? Because Bush says 9-11 changed everything and it is a war on terror, not on a country? He quipped, back in 2000, just after his inauguration, “It’d be a heckuva lot easier if this was a dictatorship, and I’d be the dictator.”

To set those low standards and capture and detain anyone for as long as we want (that alone is a form of torture–the thought of never seeing one’s family again), and deprive them of sleep, subject them to atrocities, is supposed to elicit good intelligence from them. What an incredibly outrageous mindset. Terror is a tactic, a tool. Harlan Cleveland, a fellow of the ILF (International Leadership Forum), contributes to a blog called ILF Post (www.ilfpost.org) and he wrote an article called “War Against a Tool?” I highly recommend it, and leave him a comment.

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