Thaddeus Stevens <thaddeusstephens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Top Bush Aides Pushed for Guantánamo Torture
>Senior Officials Bypassed Army Chief to Introduce Interrogation Methods
>
>By Richard Norton-Taylor
>
>America’s most senior general was “hoodwinked” by top Bush administration
officials determined
>to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects
held at Guantánamo Bay,
>leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and
inhumane treatment of
>prisoners, the Guardian reveals today.0419 01 1
>
>General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff from 2001
to 2005, wrongly
>believed
> ... he was duped
>In his new book, Torture Team, Philippe Sands
Ah. So we have a known Bush basher who's peddling a new book
to bash Bush. Obviously he's going to sensationalize his claims for
his agenda as well as his own monetary gain. Nice source,
TheDunce.
> · Myers believes ...
> · Myers wrongly believed ...
>Myers was one top official who did not understand ...
>Myers mistakenly believed ...
>Sands, who spent three hours with the former general, says he was
“confused” about the decisions
>that were taken.
Note how Myers himself isn't being quoted in most of these claims.
>in December 2002 for use by the military at Guantánamo had been taken
from the US army field
>manual. They included hooding, sensory deprivation, and physical and
mental abuse.
Ooooh how terrible. A hood was placed over their heads and they
couldn't see or hear much. Exactly what is the definition of "physical
and mental abuse"? Lack of conjugal visits? Deprival of al Qaeda
reading material?
C'mon libs. If you truly believe in this cause, demand that Cokehead
Obama and Battleax Clinton adopt this issue and insist that they
promise to release terrorists currently in custody.
>Larry Wilkerson, a former army officer and chief of staff to Colin
Powell, US secretary of state
>at the time, told the Guardian: “I do know that Rumsfeld had neutralised
the chairman [Myers] in
>many significant ways.
>
>“The secretary did this by cutting [Myers] out of im****tant
communications, meetings,
>deliberations and plans.
>http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/19/8392/
Yeah right there's an objective source.
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