U.S. Begins "Religious Enlightenment" Programs For Iraqi Detainees To "Bend Them Back To Our Will"

U.S. Working to Reshape Iraqi Detainees
Moderate Muslims Enlisted to Steer Adults and Children Away From Insurgency

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; Page A01

The U.S. military has introduced "religious enlightenment" and other education programs for Iraqi detainees, some of whom are as young as 11, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the commander of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, said yesterday.

Stone said such efforts, aimed mainly at Iraqis who have been held for more than a year, are intended to "bend them back to our will" and are part of waging war in what he called "the battlefield of the mind." Most of the younger detainees are held in a facility that the military calls the "House of Wisdom."

The religious courses are led by Muslim clerics who "teach out of a moderate doctrine," Stone said, according to the transcript of a conference call he held from Baghdad with a group of defense bloggers. Such schooling "tears apart" the arguments of al-Qaeda, such as "Let's kill innocents," and helps to "bring some of the edge off" the detainees, he said.

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start the brainwashing.

in their minds, why not? We have nothing to lose in the PR dept., since Chavez has rightly called our "leader" the devil, and we'd just have to kill them anyway in order to colonize the area effectively.

MK Ultra's children live and breathe well.

Turn them into "our" fanatics instead of "their" fanatics. This, as everything else tried by these idiots, will not go well in the long run.

We could sure use a program like that here in the states.

Twenty five percent of the population would have to be indoctrinated.

I wonder what the percentage is in Iraq?

Orwell has reached about ten thousand rpm in his crypt..

I don't see how it could fail.

That is was opiate for the people?

Welcome to the Ministry of Love.

this is what 'Merica has become??

...Good God almighty...this is beyond sick...what's next, ovens for the ones that DON'T convert...?