Rumsfeld Backs Iraq Interrogation Methods

[underpants]

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No more kinder gentler Rummy I guess. I think their polling told him to go back on the offensive.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20040512/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_prisoner_abuse

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended military interrogation techniques in Iraq (news - web sites) on Wednesday, rejecting complaints that they violate international rules and may endanger Americans taken prisoner.

Rumsfeld told a Senate committee that Pentagon (news - web sites) lawyers had approved methods such as sleep deprivation and dietary changes as well as rules permitting prisoners to be made to assume stress positions.

Expanding his question to include detainees in Afghanistan (news - web sites) and Guantanamo Bay, he (Dick Durbin D-Ill.)asked whether such a declaration would "also serve to help American prisoners" held captive.

Rumsfeld replied that the Geneva Convention applies to all prisoners held in Iraq, but not to those held in Guantanamo Bay, where detainees captured in the global war on terror are held.

He said the distinction is that the international rules govern wars between countries but not those involving groups such as al-Qaida. "Terrorists don't comply with the laws of war. They go around killing innocent civilians," Rumsfeld added.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. So how did the entire nation of Iraq become classified as terrorists?

Hasn't Rummy been told about the reports that over 70% possibly 90% are arrested without cause.

[Beetwasher]

2. Now That Attention is Focused on Berg

The Nazi can come clean and reveal his true nature....

[Judi Lynn]

7. It surely didn't take long.

The Berg event's timing was impeccably executed for _Bush as are so many tragic events we've seen in the last 3 1/2 years, deflecting a TON of anger over the first photos, and setting the stage for American self-pity and hatred of "evil doers" prior to the really bad ones right around the bend (unless the admin. can work out a way to bypass the next photo release altogether).

[Malva Zebrina]

3. thanks for posting--the story is gone now from my page.

I saw it and was so ashamed of my country that has truly become a fascist state. Bush is evil and is

operating like Hitler. Hitler liked to brag that he did everything according to the law. He had a huge, brilliant and effective propaganda machine and he was delusional and insane.

Bush is also delsusional and insane.

I am overwhelmed with all of this over the past two days.

Bush et al continue to jerk us around and lie.

There is NO conscience and NO backing down from evil policies.

[Say_What]

4. Look on the bright side... amidst all the horror the Bushies are

being exposed for who and what they are.

[Pathwalker]

5. I'm waiting for the Ann Coulter picture -

the one with a soldier pointing a gun to a prisoner's head, and the soldier asks; "NOW are you ready to accept Jesus christ as your personal Lord & Saviour?" Then, you'll really know who's side God is on.
<sarcasm off>

[suegeo]

6. So when US Senators have Rumsfeld under oath

Maybe the US Senators can use these same techniques on Rumsfeld?

[Moderator]

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