Torture victims will say anything to avoid abuse

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"Three thousand prisoners have sat in that chair. They have all talked." So said the Egyptian interrogators to...
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Hermann Munster of AmishLand, PA

Mar 30, 2008 8:10 PM

Paul - torture does work. To what extent is anyone's guess but it does make people talk.

right, right
you're bloody well right
you're got the right to kno oh

right, right
you're bloody well right
you've got the right to glo oh

right, right
you're gonna spill the truth
cuz gw tells us so oh

Hermann Munster of AmishLand, PA

Mar 30, 2008 8:07 PM

Tim - no one with a working brain believes that waterboarding was used just on 3 suspects for a total of 1 minute.

Suggesting such is so runs contrary to common sense - at least to those of us who took lifeguard certification classes. Part of that training involves getting dunked from behind and having to get free - sessions that too often ran the maximum of 1 minute. I can guarantee that no state secrets came out during that type of training.

To suggest as fast that 1 minute among 3 during one-time sessions should be beneath the dignity of anyone not named Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld or Rove.

Paul Ferris of Waterville, ME

Mar 30, 2008 7:09 PM

JR, trying to keep your children and grandchildren from becoming victims of torture is a good obsession....what is a sunny Sunday afternoon comapred to that goal....

JohnnyRoxx of Fairfield, ME

Mar 30, 2008 6:46 PM

.....not much for some to do on a sunny Sunday by the look of things. 22 comments posted and 11 from the author. Although I am glad to see obsession is alive and well!

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