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05.11.09 - 8:35 PM
Neither Efficacious Nor Medically Safe
Word has it the White House will soon release a 2004 CIA inspector general's report disproving claims, most recently by Dick Cheney, of the effectiveness of waterboarding, and proving its illegality. But footnotes from the report have already been released showing that medical personnel at waterboarding sessions protested there was no evidence "it was either efficacious or medically safe."
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Show AllStrap Dickie Down!
By his office's own legal memos, he believes it's not torture. As long as no organs fail (like his terribly small shriveled heart.)
He thinks he's a patriot. But me thinks he is a traitor to the constitution!
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
Cheney falsified or helped falsify "Proof" of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and all kinds of other lies like the ties between Saddam and 9/11. He is also responsible for the suppression millions of e-mails and hundreds of thousands of other documents that might have revealed the truth about their illegal activities. Now all of a sudden Cheney wants two documents released that will "Prove" that torture works. One of the first things Bush and Cheney did when they got in office was to pressure other countries not to support the International Criminal court because they knew they might eventually be charged with war crimes. If they were prescient enough to anticipate their prosecution they would have also manufactured "Proof" that what they did was justified.
I am certain that two manufactured documents might indicate that torture was justified, but Obama is also releasing hundreds of documents that show that torture is not justified.
Even if it does work. Does that justify the United States crossing over to what Cheney called, the Dark Side? Aren't we supposed to be the "Good Guys"?
Cheney may qualify as the definitive American psychiatric symptom.
A nation that could produce, tolerate and persist in leaving that monster unindicted is well on the way to moral morbidity.
He absolutely qualifies as the definitive American psychotic.
Organ failure? Like the human mind? These victims of U.S. torture face a lifetime of mental anguish over this treatment.
Let the docs come out. Were waterboarding not torture, they would have used another method.