Torture: Brainwashing vs. Information, Politics vs. Protection
Did Bush/Cheney torture to get FALSE confessions rather than intelligence?
Since the torture techniques used were known by those who ordered
them NOT to produce reliable intelligence, but WERE known to be useful
for BRAINWASHING...., for breaking people... * (See below for some
supporting evidence)
... THEN isn't the obvious conclusion that Bush/Cheney wanted people
broken down so that they would TELL THEM EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED TO
HEAR and BELIEVE IT?
Doesn't it make sense that they wanted the detainees to say: There
was a link to Saddam that they were planing hundreds of attacks that
had been foiled by Bush and Cheney and the Iraq invasion? Dirty bombs,
bio weapons, etc.
Bush/Cheney had the courts all ready on the other end to accept coerced confessions.
Was the Bush/Cheney strategy to brainwash the detainees to be actors
in a play that would "prove" the rational for the Iraq war, their
changes to our Constitution, and consolidate their power?
The evidence is mounting that the techniques used were known by all who advocated for them not to produce reliable intelligence.
Examples:
1) The SERE program was for resisting "BRAINWASHING" by the Soviets or
Chinese, to prevent an America prisoner from being used as a propaganda
tool saying: "Thank you from freeing me from the Fascist USA..." ect.
Everyone knew this, they keep talking about "breaking their will" not
"getting good intelligence".
2) The detainees were tortured long after there knowledge of current operations had expired.
3) The detainees were picked up by bounty hunters and didn't know anything.
4) An NPR interview April 24 with a SERE trainer who saw and
criticized the methods supports that the idea that the goal was to
break down these folks.
5) Sleep deprivation and starvation in particular is good for brainwashing but not for good information.
*After torture wouldn't getting them to say "Death to America" to
bring and end to their torment be easier than getting an American POW
to say the Vietcong are right?
So the goal of brainwashing may have seemed reasonable.
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