Bush & Cheney authorized *torture* of human beings to try to justify the Iraq invasion.

[Lex]

To try to extract false confessions from people of a Iraq-AlQueda link that they tried foist as truth upon the American public, even though all intel (except what they cooked up) denied the existence of.

OMG. The horrible intersection of both travesties.

Unbelievable. No. It's all too believable. :cry:

[liberalmuse]

1. Not human beings. "Means' to an end. That's all human beings are to their ilk.

It's enough to make you want to scream, isn't it? They figured they'd torture people, no matter that many were innocent, until they could get a 'confession' and document it as proof that Al Qaeda were operating in Iraq. How horrific is that to wrap your mind around? And the sad thing is, I wish right now these fuckers could be tortured to death, and that makes me no better than they are. Sadder still, thousands of their torture and rape victims are struggling with what these monsters did to them. Many are dead.

[Lex]

2. Just when I thought I was depleted of outrage and disbelief

something else horrific rises to the surface about these criminals.

[Lint Head]

3. It's so simple. They made up lies then they tortured people

until they said the lies were true.

These creeps are DEATH LOVERS. Torturing and killing is a buzz for these narcissistic power hungry freaks.

:dem:

[Poiuyt]

4. Cheney pushed torture techniques to find Iraq, Qaeda tie: report

At the urging of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Bush administration used torture techniques against suspected terrorists in part of an effort to establish a tie between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, according to a report Wednesday.

"The Bush administration put relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist," McClatchy Newspaper's Jonathan Landay writes.

"Such information would've provided a foundation for one of former President George W. Bush's main arguments for invading Iraq in 2003," he adds. "No evidence has ever been found of operational ties between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and Saddam's regime."

The push apparently came from Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who were adamant about making a connection, McClatchy Newspaper's Jonathan Landy writes.

"Former Vice President Dick Cheney and others who advocated the use of sleep deprivation, isolation and stress positions and waterboarding, which simulates drowning, insist that they were legal," Landay says, but a former senior intelligence official "familiar with the interrogation issue said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that intelligence agencies and interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration.

more -

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_administration_used_torture_techniques_in_0422.html

[steven johnson]

5. Trying to coerce prisoners to repeat their paranoid fantasies

K&R

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