Hello:
Didja read about what your government did to people in YOUR name?? It's OK if you're not embarrassed by your government. I'm embarrassed enough for all of us.
These ten tortures are: (l) attention grasp, (2) walling, (3) facial hold, (4) facial slap (insult slap), (5) cramped confinement, (6) wall standing, (7) stress positions, (8) sleep deprivation, (9) insects placed in a confinement box, and (10) the waterboard.
I suppose you're going to tell me that I forget WHO they are. My answer is PRECISELY THAT!!
Blind justice is a concept LOST on the right wing!!!
Ok, I'll indulge you for a minute... Let's look at WHO they are. When there were 600 at Gitmo, Cheney told us that they were the "worst of the worst". Since then they let 400 of 'em go with NO charges... So, I guess 400 of the 600 WEREN'T the worst of the worst...
But, if Vice was WRONG about 2/3 of them, what gives you confidence that he's right about the remailing 1/3?? Well, I for one, have NO confidence in it, however I'm sure you righty's believe every word Vice utters.
Who else are these people?? Well, they've never been charged with anything. Even without rights, they've not been convicted of anything. We didn't even arrest all of them. Some were handed over because they couldn't pay a bribe. In truth, we have NO idea whether they're bad guys or not.
The torture memo details the interrogation techniques that were used on Abu Zubaydah. The Palestinian-born man was captured in Pakistan, in March 2002, and then interrogated in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. According to US officials he has given information that foiled major terror attacks, however he has never been charged with any crime and remains in custody.
In a Red Cross report on Guantánamo Bay this year he was quoted saying of his waterboarding: "I thought I was going to die. I lost control of my urine. Since then, I still lose control of my urine when under stress".
"I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop,” he said.
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