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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:08 AM Original message |
Why do they use torture when they have the truth drug? |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. ...maybe they didn't want the truth...they "create reality" remember... |
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JayMusgrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Sounds about right to me! n/t |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:17 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. That's a good answer, but why go to so much trouble torturing and keeping it a secret? |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. I'm not sure if it was secret - just the extent of it was secret. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. The public would have bought their story if they said they used truth drugs |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:34 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. But they didn't want the truth. They wanted evidence of an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection nt |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. My point is, they could have manufactured the truth with either method |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
2. Drugs are ban.. uh BAD, mmmmmmmmkay? |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
4. Not sure if you read the link you provided |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:19 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I did read that and no I'm not proposing the use of truth drugs |
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K Gardner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 09:53 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. I didn't know that, but it's really kind of ironic don't you think? It's OK to do the AbuGahrib on |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:14 AM Response to Original message |
5. It was a concerted effort to both punish and humiliate detainees |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:22 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Which goes back to my point about torturers being the enhanced version |
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The_Commonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
10. They were also sending a message... |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
14. I don't believe it was about info, it was about punishment. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
15. Torture is more fun. n/t |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
16. Truth drugs don't work |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 09:22 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. But torture doesn't work either only even worse |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 09:29 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Would some sort of euphoric agents... |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 10:00 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. The only "truth serum" is alcohol |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 10:51 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Well, that's the kind of thing I mean... |
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