No torture, we get Saddam. Torture people and bin Laden is free

[Mabus]

The interrogator credited with finding Saddam Hussein did not use torture because he doesn't think it works. Instead he talked to people and gained their trust. As a result, Saddam was captured.

Ex-Interrogators Say Human Connection, Not Torture, Yields Results

Over five weeks in Tikrit, Army Staff Sergeant Eric Maddox, who has interrogated hundreds of Iraqis, identified and followed an enemy chain of command that led up to Hussein and ultimately to his underground hideout on Dec. 13, 2003. To get information at each link in that chain, Maddox said he had to win the trust of a detained informant and to convince that person that the interrogator would protect his loved ones.

"For him to trust me, imagine if I tortured the guy," said Maddox, adding, "Under no circumstances would torture work."

http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=107697

Allegedly one of the reasons behind all the torture at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo was to get to bin Laden. Well, as we all know, that didn't work and in fact has been counterproductive.

[Jennicut]

1. So Dick is wrong? LOL. Maddox needs to have a few words with Dick.

[Mabus]

2. We don't torture and get the guy not connected with 9/11

but we torture and the guy behind 9/11 roams (or roamed) free.

In Cheney's world, this makes sense. Whatta Dick!