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Khalid Sheik Mohammed: "I Gave A Lot Of False Information" To Make Torture Stop
For all the attention that the Bush administration torture memos have been receiving over past month, those documents pale in comparison to the revelations documented in the leaked 40-page report issued by the International Committee for the Red Cross following two rounds of private interviews it held with the 14 "high value detainees" held at Guantanamo Bay.
If you want to know what our country did to those detainees -- especially Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, and Rahim al-Nashiri (all three were waterboarded and suffered the worst treatment) -- then read the Red Cross report. It will leave you with a very sickening feeling about the depths to which President Bush and Vice President Cheney were willing to go to try to justify its disastrous war in Iraq (while the detainees were providing ample information during FBI interrogations about the 9/11 plot, the torture apparently began as they sought evidence about the non-existent al-Qaida/Iraq link) and how we morphed into the very monsters that we once condemned when it came to the actions of other nations.
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History shows, repeatedly, that the only thing torture reliably produces is false confessions.
Really? Then you're prepared, of course, to demonstrate this to be a fact.
We're going to need you to list the full history of 'torture'; wherein you will provide the full and complete list of truths; the correlated items from that list which were being sought by those who were implementing "torture" and the lies which resulted from them, which you will, of course, be demonstrably distinct from the list of truths.
And where you're unable to do so for any reason, your concession that this position is thus demonstrated to be false, with you having proven that you KNEW IT TO BE FALSE WHEN YOU ADVANCED IT, establishing that your purpose FOR ADVANCING IT was DECEIT, will be wholly and immutably established; even where such is not already WELL ESTABLISHED.
And THAT kids is all there is to refuting a leftist myth...