Torture Nation

In this post, I discussed how the SERE training techniques, the ones used to develop the Bush Administration torture methods, were based on the Chinese interrogations which were designed to elicit false confessions.

Not it turns out that eliciting false confessions is exactly what the Bush Administration desired.

The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

Oh, there were evildoers, all right. They were located in the West Wing, the Executive Office Building and the E-Ring of the Pentagon. They were men who cared nothing for the facts, they only wanted that the captives who were tortured "confess" to something that was not true.

There is, in point of fact, no significant difference between the Bush Administration's use of torture in this decade and the use of torture over fifty years ago by the Communist Chinese.

The "conservatives", who continue to defend everything that the Administration of George Bush and Dick Cheney did, are indeed this decade's "Good Little Germans".