General Claims Bush Gave 'Marching Orders' on Aggressive Interrogation at Guantanamo

General Claims Bush Gave 'Marching Orders' on Aggressive Interrogation at Guantanamo

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Drawing almost exclusively from the documents, the authors say there is a stark contrast between the public statements of President Bush and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the policies those and others in the administration were advocating behind the scenes.

President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in the book.

The ACLU also found that ..

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So, it was Bush that gave the OK for torturing the prisoners in Guantanamo.

Rumsfeld might have known that prisoners were being tortured, but Bush is the one that gave the OK to torture, then he let Rumsfeld take ALL the heat for it once it was uncovered.

This is the kind of president we have, one that allows prisoners to be tortured and allows other people to take the fall for his actions or orders.

The US used to abide by the Geneva Convention regarding torture and urge other nations to do so also, the US used to urge other nations not to hold people in secret prisons without being charged.

I guess those were the "Good old days".



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When did agressive interrogation equal torture?

When did we try to give constituational rights to terrorists?

When did Al-Queda become a signer of the Geneva convention?

Wouldn't they have had to break some Geneva convention rules to be detainees in the first place?

None of this stuff happened in the "Good Old Days".

In the "Good Old Days", if you messed with the Continental Army, George Washington would have hanged you on the spot! Remember John Andre? No detention camps, no jury trial with a lawyer present, just a military tribunal, then death.

Maybe we should go back to the Good old days?

Bush probably gave a CEO to that general afterwards. It's manure, the man is using this to cover his own callousness, he never done anyone for torture, he has covered them.

"Documents from Guantanamo describe prisoners shackled in excruciating 'stress positions,' held in freezing-cold cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorized with military dogs, and deprived of human contact for months."

I had some of that done to me in SERE School.

Aggressive Interrogation isn't torture. Sure, it sucks, but it's not like some of the fun and games the enemy likes to do.

"The ACLU also found that an Army investigator reported Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the interrogation of a Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani. The prisoner was forced to parade naked in front of female interrogators wearing women's underwear on his head and was led around on a leash while being forced to perform dog tricks."

The ol' "underwear on the head" torture. Those guards were animals!!

Has anyone seen this? Yes, I know, a link from Fox News, and we all know what liars they are:

www.foxnews.com...