December 02, 2004
Mark Kleiman: J'Accuse
In Qui s’excuse, s’accuse, Mark Kleiman demonstrates that the Joint Chiefs, like the White House above them, are OK with the US’s current torture policy, one that the Red Cross thinks involves actual torture, whatever we may call it for domestic consumption.
Posted by Michael : December 2, 2004 02:57 PM | Iraq Atrocities | TechnoLinks
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General Myers: "Let's not forget the kind of people we have down there," he said. "These are the people that don't know any moral values."
Translation: They're untermensch. Untermenschen lack "moral values," which everyone knows is a perfectly acceptable justification for ignoring the law regulating our treatment of them.
Meyers: "We certainly don't think it's torture"
Strange coming from someone who I know for a fact went through the same "resistance training" I did (where several of the things the US has already stated we do to prisoners are specifically identified as torture). Meyers is giving McPeak a run for the title of "Worst Air Force Officer Ever".