Maybe GW wants to personally thank Hu for all the help?:>)
Torture, Communism, and the American Way
by Jacob G. Hornberger
Do you recall how outraged U.S. officials appeared to be when people were comparing the Pentagons prison camp at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet communist gulags? Well, the outrage might have been a bit fake and false.
Guess what U.S. military officials have been using as a guideline for interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. According to a front-page article in todays New York Times, they have been knowingly and intentionally using torture techniques employed by the Chinese communists on American soldiers during the Korean War on detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Hows that for a bit of moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy? Imagine that: 45 years of a Cold War against the communists, more than 100,000 Americans killed in hot wars against the communists, and an ever-growing military-industrial complex to oppose communism, only to find that there are some features of communism that U.S. officials really like. (Maybe thats why they dont mind kidnapping Cuban refugees on the high seas and forcibly repatriating them into Cuban communist tyranny.)
Apparently the idea behind using communist torture methods at Guantanamo was that U.S. personnel, especially those in the CIA, would employ the types of touch-less-- torture techniques that were employed by the communists that would damage a persons mind but leave no evidence of physical torture. In that way, government officials could look the people in the eye and claim, We dont torture.--
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