Where do you think the greatest inspiration for so-called enhanced interrogations came from?

ck4829

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Wed May-27-09 09:11 AM
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Poll question: Where do you think the greatest inspiration for so-called enhanced interrogations came from?

Edited on Wed May-27-09 09:17 AM by ck4829

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lame54

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Wed May-27-09 09:14 AM
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1. Cheney's Wet Dreams

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Echo In Light

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Wed May-27-09 09:16 AM
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2. Other: Long standing CIA tactics

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havocmom

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Wed May-27-09 09:24 AM
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3. Other: cheney is bad all on his own; it is convergent evolution.

cheney is a coward, most bullies are cowards. cheney needs constant reassurance that his personal sociopath ways are THE ONLY WAY and he will do anything to anybody to maintain that delusion.

That his methods are like others' from other places does not mean he was influenced by them. He is not influenced by anything save his own sickness. Convergent evolution explains this latest dark episode in human history.

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Echo In Light

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Wed May-27-09 09:30 AM
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5. I suspect it's a matter of individuals with specific personality traits being attracted to systems..

Edited on Wed May-27-09 09:31 AM by Echo In Light

...that provide opportunities for those traits to manifest, especially within closed systems where, you know, they're 'closed' for a specific reasons, none of which are usually good/noble/altruistic, etc

In other words, it's not a Bush, or a Cheney, per se, it's when lives are tailored around corrupt, immoral systems and structures of authority. It makes people feel better thinking it's just a 'bad' individual (which is why the "few bad apples" meme gets such mileage, cause people WANT to believe it) and not indicative of inherent corruption within hallowed, overarching systems - - that's really the essence of "patriotic" indoctrination.

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havocmom

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Wed May-27-09 09:42 AM
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6. bush is a follower and bad company knew that, sought him out as the front man

I didn't used to believe in 'evil' but cheney changed all that. He did not fall into bad company, he has always been a self-serving coward. He sought power as a shield against reality which is just too rough for his cowardly soul. He used power for his own garment and he stops at nothing to try to keep his garment from being show to be in tatters. He IS bad company, all on his own.

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Echo In Light

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Wed May-27-09 09:46 AM
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7. Yep. Goes back to Iran/Contra

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TexasObserver

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Wed May-27-09 09:27 AM
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4. Mao's people wrote the book on torture to produce "confessions."

While there are other roots of this, going back into antiquity, the modern template, and the one from which the Bush administration took its training, was the Chinese Communists.

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