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US ordered to explain withholding of Iraq and Afghanistan torture photos

What mass murder?

I wasn't referring to any particular genocidal mass murder, could be Sudan, Rwanda, WWII. We see the pictures in the press.
 
No, and these people were not trying to save American lives. They were trying to feel powerful and to get this feeling they abused fellow human beings.

Do you remember the old excuse people like yourself used for these people? "Oh, they were just stressed", because as we all know how to deal with stress is to strip people naked, make them bark like dogs, force them to masturbate, and for good measure rape a few of them. Yup, I hear everyone does that kind of stuff when they get stressed. Yup.

One of the problems with legalized torture and murder is that he people doing start enjoying it.
 
My life was probably saved at one point because by torture. The really ****ty thing about torture is that it works. :(

It might work sometimes, but then pretty much anything might work sometimes.

What level SERE graduate are you?

Why is that necessary?
 
It might work sometimes, but then pretty much anything might work sometimes.

Lots of things do. Torture, unfortunately, however, is very often effective, especially if done intelligently. The number of people who are actually able to resist over time is extremely small.

Why is that necessary?

You stated I can think of more effective and less inhumane ways to save peoples lives; which seemed to suggest that you actually had a level of expertise in this subject. So I asked if you did.
 
One of the problems with legalized torture and murder is that he people doing start enjoying it.

That is very true. Studies of guards suggest that it is not, in fact, the new and untested guards who are the dangers for abuse, but rather the ones who are older, a bit more experienced, and have gotten desensitized to it.
 
Lots of things do. Torture, unfortunately, however, is very often effective, especially if done intelligently. The number of people who are actually able to resist over time is extremely small.

Who said anything about resisting over the long hall? You rape someone, threaten to cut off their nads, etc, etc, they will probably say something to make you stop.

You stated I can think of more effective and less inhumane ways to save peoples lives; which seemed to suggest that you actually had a level of expertise in this subject. So I asked if you did.

Do I need to pass some test to have it? I was unaware the government had knowledge no one else in the world had access too.
 
Who said anything about resisting over the long hall? You rape someone, threaten to cut off their nads, etc, etc, they will probably say something to make you stop.

Yup. And when you take away people's ability to perform reliable deception (which is a pretty cognitively complex act, unlike recall and verbalization) through shock, fear, sleep-deprivation and the like, then all they are left to tell you is what they know.

Do I need to pass some test to have it?

It is usually gained through study and experience, yes. That is why we have trained interrogators who go through these courses instead of, you know, pulling people off the street and sitting them across from detainees.

I was unaware the government had knowledge no one else in the world had access too.

well then you haven't been paying attention to the news. Allow me to provide you with a baseline piece.
 
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