The Harm The Bush Administration Has Done to Our Nation
The Bush Administration has taken this nation, once known as the shining city on the hill, and replaced it with:
The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Are you not shocked by this reporting by Scott Shane in the New York Times? That's right: in our name, people used Chinese torture techniques -- things we know from our national experience will generate false confessions.
This does not make us safer. It just destroys our national honor.
Thank you President Bush and Vice President Cheney. In a real world, they both would be impeached.