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Why Conduct Torture Inquiry When We Could Just Torture Them?
by Ciaran Dubhuidhe
Wednesday, Apr. 22, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Why not just beat the truth out of them?
Some
Democrats are pushing for a torture inquiry.
There has been a call for a special prosecutor to investigate the war
crimes of the Bush Administration. I support a move to charge
the decision makers and enablers of the Bush Regime with war crimes,
but why bother with an investigation when a simpler solution is
available? Why not torture them instead?
Sure, torture is not the most reliable method of obtaining information,
but it is cheaper than a real investigation. As much as we
value the truth, isn't revenge even sweeter? Apparently that
was the thinking of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their cabaret of law
whores. I'm sure that these persons of interest would agree
that torture is the best option available.
First off, they could be “rendered” to foreign soil
where they would enjoy no rights. A bevy of Central
Intelligence Agency or Defense Intelligence Agency perverts could be
assembled to do the honors or we could just do the American thing and
outsource the proceedings. Imagine the sound of one official
after another having his head slammed against the concrete walls of a
torture cell, the sound of a Bush official gurgling beneath the flow of
water while being waterboarded, or one of their lawyers standing naked
for days on end without sleep. Heck, we could finance the
operation by putting the delightful scenes on pay-per-view to the
tune of Matador .
It won't matter whether they confess or not. In a case like
this, the means will justify the ends.
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