Torture memos

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Originally Posted by Redux

And one of the DOJ memos states that:

"The CIA used the waterboard "at least 83 times during August 2002" in the interrogation of Zubaydaydah... and 183 times during March 2003 in the interrogation of KSM (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed)"

Why so many times? He was not telling them what they wanted to hear. Same reason the Iraqi General was murdered during torture. He also was not telling American extremists what they wanted to hear. Instead he was telling the truth.

Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition. Monty Python was clairvoyant? Posted here repeatedly even in May 2004 because the problem was that obvious that long ago:
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And still, George Jr loyalists deny it - facts be damned.

Political extremists believe only what is good for the party line. Centrists instead use facts to know. Political extremists did then and still now deny what was that obvious even when Gen Miller left Guantanamo to instill the same torture techniques in Abu Ghraid. Why? We *knew* Saddam had WMDs. That *justifies* torture.

Just another lesson from history that we are expected to recite in another 30 years. Deja vue.