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To: Dayuhan who wrote (47253)	5/26/2004 11:16:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794184

Torture never yields reliable information This is repeated like dogma. But is it true? If it's so useless, why is it so widely used, in one form or another? All all these people stupid sadists?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (47253)	5/26/2004 11:19:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 794184

These interrogations were not conducted because they were necessary. Torture never yields reliable information. These people weren't torture because they had to know where the ticking bomb is. They were torturing because they enjoyed it. Nobody with any actual knowledge of the situation is arguing otherwise. The investigators, the prosecutors, the higher ups in the Pentagon, the fellow officers, the Bush White House staff, not one, not even one of them, argues that torture was necessary in Abu Ghraib in order to obtain information. Which, apparently, makes them all a bunch of Commie pinko terrorist sympathizers. As soon as Rush Limbaugh heard that Bush was irate and apologized to King Abdullah of Jordan, he started ranting that Bush was finished. And then the chorus started that any criticism of Abu Ghraib was traitorous and would lose the war on terrorism. It's been weird.