While some will defend torture as a means of interrogating prisoners of war, I stand my ground and cannot ever condone torture of any form. We have better, more reliable ways of gathering intelligence on our enemies. When we stoop to the methods used by our enemies, we become no better than our enemies. Using torture as an interrogation method is sheer laziness. While CIA bureaucrats defend their methods as being caught up in the emotion of 9-11, one may perhaps understand their excuse for the torture but nonetheless it remains patently un-American. Our history and our very nature says that torture is not our way. We are a Godly nation, a predominately Christian nation, and by our nature we seek to help humanity, not torture him. I suppose that it was the emotion of the moment that caused CIA officials to lie about the reason for their torturing 9-11 prisoner and one of its masterminds, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. CIA interrogators in Poland struck Mohammed repeatedly, denied him sleep, denied him food and water for extended periods, causing dehydration, then rehydrated him by shoving a hose up his rectum and flooding him with water. This caused massive diarrhea, as one can imagine, where being tied in his chair he relieved himself all over himself. Interrogators threatened to kill his children, and he was waterboarded 183 times. Mohammed finally gave up 9-11 terrorist planner, Majid Khan. Afterward, as a means of justifying their illegal actions that clearly and grossly violated the long-standing Laws of Armed Conflict and the Geneva Conventions, rules that were strengthened after what we saw Japanese and Nazi interrogators do to American prisoners of war, CIA bureaucrats lied to the President and Congress that their torture of Mohammed led them to Majid Khan and that they now held him prisoner. It was an outright lie. When the CIA began torturing Mohammed, they had already captured Majid Khan and held him as prisoner. Now, ask yourselves this: How do you feel about how the Japanese of World War II treated American prisoners of war? More than 53 percent of Americans captured by Japanese died in their prisons because of the torture and maltreatment. How do you feel about the stories told by American prisoners of war when they returned home from Hanoi, and told of the various means of torture exercised by the North Vietnamese? You want to know about torture? Ask Senator John McCain to raise his arms above his head. He cannot. Why? Because the North Vietnamese interrogators in the Hanoi Hilton broke both of Senator McCains shoulders torturing him. News of these inhumane methods of interrogation betray America and paint a picture of evil in the minds of the people we would save. Think about it. And think about the lies and deception practiced by the CIA, even to their own Congress and President. Is this what we want in America? And todays leadership is not one bit better. Those waving the bloody shirt, people like Senator Diane Feinstein, are the same people who approved the funding for this insanity. They even passed a bill that made the CIA interrogators and bosses immune from prosecution for their patent violations of the Geneva Conventions. And they continue to lie to and cheat the American people. Our President does not know the truth from his many and sordid lies. People without morals and values can draw no lines discerning good from evil. They do not comprehend Honor and Integrity.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 16:27:07 +0000
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