I'm sure those of you from the USA know that America doesn't torture. George Bush said it. It must be true. Right? This inalienable truth is even supported by the recent release of documents from the CIA explicitly discussing exactly how agents used advanced interrogation techniques to not torture detainees. From the Huffington Post:
Last week the Department of Justice released memos detailing techniques used for interrogation of terrorism suspects aka torture memos. This decision by President Obama has been lauded by some, but several members of the Bush administration and their supporters have been making the rounds on Fox News and the Sunday talk shows saying it was a huge mistake. A former Bush administration official told Politico:
"It's damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama's action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are. We have laid it all out for our enemies. This is totally unnecessary...Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to our national security by ensuring they can never be used again..."
These people are upset that these torture techniques can never be used again? They should have never been used in the first place. The only reason anyone should ever be tortured is if they specifically go looking for a dom on Craigslist.
I like Jon Stewart's take on the whole thing:
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