re: #667 iceweasel

We’re talking about the torture issue, and it involves more than waterboarding, and more people were waterboarded (and otherwise tortured, and occasionally murdered) than ‘a couple of Al Queda masterminds’.

I understand that it is much prettier and much more comfortable to believe that the US didn’t torture, and that the US only used a couple of harsh techniques, and then only against maybe 2 really really bad guys, and it saved thousands of lives.

That gauzy fantasy isn’t the reality though. Not by a long shot. And it makes me sick.
I am also especially angry because it just keeps getting worse.

Gitmo Detainee’s ‘Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,’ Waterboarding ‘Far Down The List Of Things They Did’

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