Tortured Logic, Tortured Results by William Loren Katz May 14, 2009

[L. Coyote]

Tortured Logic, Tortured Results
By William Loren Katz
May 14, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/051409c.html


Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, said, "the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 -- well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion -- its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa'ida."

Journalist Paul Krugman said of the mounting evidence: "Let's say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link.

"There's a word for this: it's evil."

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[ThomWV]

1. In a word. K&R

[kentuck]

2. There's another word for it...

criminal.

[pocoloco]

3. And impeachment was off the table,

[flyarm]

4. ahhhh.. but fugetaboutit..lets just move forward!!

we don't have time to deal with this..we have important chess games to play dont'cha know!!

:sarcasm:

all those dead bodies ..for a war based on lies..just forgetaboutit..

-Torture photos..forgetaboutit..

-wiretapping all of us ..forgetaboutit.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04 /...

-Putting the general..Stanley McChrystal.. who lied about Pat Tillman in Afganistan..forgetaboutit
more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090513/ap_on_go_ot/us_afgh...
more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/mcchrystal-pelosi_b_204211.html


- Nominating Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run DOJ Environment Division who worked for the largest polluter with a huge superfund case GE ..owner of NBC and MSNBC ..ahhh forgetsboutit.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/15/ignacia-moreno-supe... /


-After saying the photo's of torture were going to be released 2 weeks ago and now saying , no they will not be released..forgetaboutit..
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/13/photo...


- Military tribunals will be ended....forgetaboutit......

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/09/obama-to-g...

Yes, the same Barack Obama that forcefully pronounced to the American public during the election:


By any measure our system of trying detainees has been an enormous failure,

Not to mention declaring that as President he would:


reject the Military Commissions Act.


-Going to get all our troops out of Iraq..and now finding out they are going to keep at least 50,000 troops in iraq for 15-20 years..forgetaboutit..

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/05/14-11
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/28-7


-Warning Britian to stfu about the torture..forgetaboutit..
more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/world/europe/15britai...

[Usrename]

5. Maybe they just wanted to obscure who the real perpetrators are.

It is only an assumption that they tortured people into making false confessions in order to create a false link between Iraq and 9/11.

It is more likely that they did it in order to obscure the real truth behind 9/11.

They didn't have to torture anyone in order to justify the war. All they had to do was plant some WMD in Iraq after the invasion.