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

[Hissyspit]

Source: Raw Story

General claims Bush gave 'marching orders' on aggressive interrogation at Guantanamo
Nick Juliano
Published: Monday October 22, 2007

New book says US uses 'methods of the most tyrannical regimes'

More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents to demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even expected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published book.

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"The documents show unambiguously that the administration has adopted some of the methods of the most tyrannical regimes," write Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh. "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."

Most of the documents on which Administration of Torture is based were obtained as a result of ongoing legal fights over a Freedom of Information Act request filed in October 2003 by the ACLU and other human rights and anti-war groups, the ACLU said in a news release.

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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.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/General_claims_Bush_gave_marching_orders_1022.html

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MODS: I could be wrong, but I think this got missed/not previously posted in LBN.

[liberal N proud]

1. Goody, Can we impeach now?

[Felinity]

2. NO!

But you may have a cookie.

[aquart]

4. Add it to the list.

[tinrobot]

7. Nope - he still didn't get a blowjob.

n/t

[0007]

27. ....then how come Condi's green dress is almost white now!

[man4allcats]

43. Well, there was that

Jeff Gannon/Guckert thing Monkeyboy had going there for awhile, but I guess ol' Jeff wasn't wearing his blue dress at the time so there's probably nothing to test for the Chimpster's DNA. ;-)

[Kikosexy2]

10. No...

Ms.No-Nancy-No says "No" because she has taken over Joe Lieberman's job of licking the Chimp's ass....so with that the American public ends up being tortured with the Chimp staying in office until Jan. 2009...

[Demeter]

28. Hell With Impeachment--Throw Him in Jail!

Preferably, Guantanamo.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

39. I say hand him and Cheney over to the Iraqis to deal with. ..n/t

[Bicoastal]

3. Quick! George needs us to fake another Bin Laden tape! n/t

[babylonsister]

5. * belongs in Gitmo, or the Hague, and deserves the same treatment

he seems so fond of.

[freebrew]

21. BS!

He deserves a firing squad...along with every one of his enablers.

[Demeter]

29. I Don't Disagree, But I Was Trying to Be Good

for my blood pressure's sake.

[dickbearton]

35. Exactly. High Treason deserves the death penalty,

[Joanne98]

6. Bush is a sicko!

[Baby Snooks]

9. Just evil...

Bush is just evil. As are those who continue to wave their little flags and support him and his policies. Including some Democrats in Congress including one who is running for president.

Iran is not a threat any more than Iraq was a threat. We, however, are. We have become a shameful nation among nations.

[lyonspotter]

41. Rome was most decadent in the waning years.

And so it is with us.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KsF-RiMzGpk

[Amonester]

8. "including some who were not even expected of having terrorist ties"

What "ties" did they have?

Somebody knows WHY "some who were not even expected of having terrorist ties" were victims of "some of the methods of the most tyrannical regimes" (non-elected) bushitler gave "marching orders" to (despicable, for not refusing "higher orders") "Gen." Dunlavey??

War criminals: Check the Nuremberg Trials... http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/wcrime.htm

Congress: Does the world hate US enough now? :cry:

[ptolle]

12. ties

I'd suspect that as is the case for many people in gitmo and many, many in those unfortunate nations we've liberated their only ties are family ties and ties to the country where they were born and are too poor to leave if they'd wanted to. Just as I often wonder whether some Iraqis and Afghanis end up dead because they were terrorists, or do they end up terrorists because they're dead? Signore Alighieri could not devise a deep enough circle of hell for the boy warrior prince and the criminals he's inflicted upon this country.The Hague ought to be just a start. Real justice would see the bush baby and all the busheviks confined to Gitmo for the rest of their natural lives.

[havocmom]

15. Gotta give some to the sadists willing to follow illegal orders

The way you build a Praetorian Guard you can trust is to give thugs lots of leeway to satisfy their baser drives.

[Roland99]

11. What was that docu-drama about the guys from Britain that traveled to Afghanistan?

And then got caught up and herded up with "al Qaeda" and Taliban suspects?


I'm sure that film was very accurate in its portrayal of their time in Gitmo.

[Vinca]

13. But impeachment is "off the table." I don't get it.

Maybe if someone was blowing Bush when he gave the order . . .

[Usrename]

14. Bush, the first American despot! Will there be more?

Impeach the MFer already.

[debbierlus]

16. Ordering torture against the Geneva Convention: IMPEACH THE SOB

Does he have to sacrifice a live infant on the steps of the Lincoln memorial????

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

IMPEACH NOW

[TechBear_Seattle]

31. This wasn't torture, this was "aggressive interrogation"

Big difference, just as the Junta. :cry:

[VP505]

17. If this General

has documentation to prove that statement, then there is absolutely NO excuse for Bush/Cheney NOT being arrested and put on trial for war crimes after the House impeaches and the Senate convicts and removes from office.

[Amonester]

19. he could be put on trial too...

or, if given immunity (if he can live with the horror and find some sleep...), then he may not be safe to fly in small planes ever again.

The Home of the Brave calls him anyway...
Is he gonna pick up the phone?
Or will he cower in shame?

[OneBlueSky]

18. Bush still hasn't gotten over his Skull & Bones initiation . . . so he's giving back . . .

and it doesn't matter to whom . . .

[RoccoR5955]

20. Will someone pulllleeeeaaaasssseeeee....

Give Bush a blowjob, so that they can impeach him?

[allisonthegreat]

22. does not surprise me at all..jerk that he is!!n/t

[madrchsod]

23. so where is the report on the cia prison on a british soil

in the middle of the indian ocean?

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B92144A6-B017-4C63-A367-759A99517DF9.htm
Al Jazeera English - News - 'Cia Island Jail' To Be Probed

http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007243&docId=l:687338108&start=19
LexisNexis News - Latest News from over 4,000 sources, including newspapers, tv transcripts, wire services, magazines, journals.

[peacetalksforall]

24. We are a grand Christian nation and are superior to every other.

people on the earth. Didn't you get the lessons yet?

Everyday we receive confirmation of what we surmised, linked, threaded, and placed in flow charts.

Why not start by impeaching corporate news?

Stole our airwaves. Stole the truth.

[simmonsj811]

25. But he keeps

Saying the U.S. don't torture. bah abh bah bah

[lostnotforgotten]

26. George W Bush - War Criminal - Hitler Incarnate!

Are you happy now Amerika?

[lame54]

30. Hey Nancy! - Is Impeachment Still Off the Table?

here is where we are heading

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hr8k8WHTzN0

[lyonspotter]

42. It is sad but true

Watch this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xufsr2log

[Divine Discontent]

32. Sweet Jesus....

can we make this end, please.

Congress, how complicit you seem to be. If anyone associated with a Congressman/woman directly reads our comments, please ask them what it's going to take for them to just try and do the right thing and throw impeachment out there regardless if they lose their precious seat in the process. I couldn't live with myself personally, I'd retire if I couldn't force myself to demand impeachment proceedings.

[katty]

33. Why would anyone be surprised by this? We ALL KNEW

this was happening--too many stories came out IN OUR FACES

[defendandprotect]

37. This couldn't happen without the leadership moving it forward -- it would be impossible ---

it was an organized effort -- same crap in more than one place ---
over and over again -- ???

Deaths uninvestigated -- ?

Cover up by the military -- ???

Soldiers can't do that -- !!!

[Senator]

34. K&R&Impeach

[defendandprotect]

36. From blowing up frogs to blowing up people . . .. the Bush boys . . .

[creeksneakers2]

38. Then there is proof

Bush should go to prison for this.

[Hissyspit]

40. .

[rAVES]

44. Whos to believe these "Jameel jeffur" and "Amrit Singh" guys?.. they have terrist names!!

:sarcasm: (can never be too careful)

[NoGodsNoMasters]

45. I never doubted it for a second.

[C_U_L8R]

46. Give that man a front row seat

in The Hague

[SalmonChantedEvening]

47. Attention General Dunlavey: Swifboat Attack Imminent

You have fingered the Boy King, prepare for the worst, from the worst.

[rodeodance]

48. ......Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the interrogation......

......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.

“It is imperative that senior officials who authorized, endorsed, or tolerated the abuse and torture of prisoners be held accountable," Jaffer and Singh write, "not only as a matter of elemental justice, but to ensure that the same crimes are not perpetrated again.”