They tortured in order to justify Iraq.....This is a WAR CRIME

[Postman]

According to several former top officials involved, the military training program called SERE had been created to give American pilots and soldiers a sample of the torture methods used by Communists in the Korean War, methods that had wrung false confessions from Americans.

(my comment - Now, those methods were being implemented by the Bush Administration to illicit false confessions about an Al-Qaeda - Iraq link to parade before the American public as vindication and proof that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were an imminent threat. A falsehood that they knew all along.)


A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under "pressure" to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.

"While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq," Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. "The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/21/report-harsh-interrogatio_n_189817.html


Torture is used not to get information, it is used to get false confessions in order to propagandize your own public with that false information...We seen that demonstrated with the experience of John McCain. He was tortured and that false information was paraded before the Vietnamese people by the Vietnamese....