Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link

[babsbunny]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.html?storylink=omni_popular

By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

Such information would've provided a foundation for one of former President George W. Bush's main arguments for invading Iraq in 2003. In fact, no evidence has ever been found of operational ties between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and Saddam's regime.

[LSK]

1. yes this is the REAL STORY, forget what Pelosi knew!!

Remember in early 2003 there were inspectors on the ground in Iraq (Hans Blix) who found NOTHING. So Cheney needed that Saddam-Al Queda connection as additional justification for the war. So he tried to torture false confessions supporting this fictional link.

Wilkinson says this also:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5662592&mesg_id=5662592

Torture was never used to protect America, it was used to cover Bush/Cheney's ass.

[LynnTheDem]

2. "Abusive tactics"..."Enhanced techniques". It's all the same;

TORTURE.


ILLEGAL.


WAR CRIMES.


EVIL-DOERS.