Today is a banner day in defeatism. The U.S. Army is embracing defeat aggressively by agreeing to take the next step in becoming the bad guys of the world. Despite overwhelming evidence that torture.. oops.. i mean aggressive interrogation.. yields unreliable results and despite our signatures on the Geneva convention, and the possibility that our guys might be the ones tortured someday..the army has apparently "updated" it's interrogation guidelines to include more ..umm.. vigorous techniques.
said one unnamed officer:
"Every body's talking past each other on this," the officer said. " 'Cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment' is at the crux of the problem, but we've never defined that."
cus you know, what one guy might find inhumane, other folks might actually pay for. so who's to say really? one man's torture is another man's autoerotic asphyxiation.
"i tried"
UPDATE: el commandante reveals the finest quote from the story: ""Do not read this in a tortured, convoluted and contrived way," a senior State Department official said."
"Talking past each other"?? What the hell is that? More likely it's going in one ear and passed as gas out the ass.
Posted by: Neil Shakespeare | 14 December 2005 at 09:34 AM
This is a priceless quote about U.S. policy on torture:
"Do not read this in a tortured, convoluted and contrived way," a senior State Department official said.
Posted by: comandante agi | 14 December 2005 at 09:47 AM