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August 10, 2007

Take the blue pill

Shh! Researching and building for a quick video (coming *very* soon!)

Have some of this (via)...

Vanity Fair - Rorschach and Awe: I did not set out to discover how America got into the business of torturing detainees. I wasn't even trying to learn how America found out who was behind 9/11. I was attempting to explain why psychologists, alone among medical professionals, were participating in military interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere....

And this...

New Yorker - The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program: As the C.I.A. captured and interrogated other Al Qaeda figures, it established a protocol of psychological coercion. The program tied together many strands of the agency's secret history of Cold War-era experiments in behavioral science... A person involved in the Council of Europe inquiry, referring to cavity searches and the frequent use of suppositories during the takeout of detainees, likened the treatment to "sodomy." He said, "It was used to absolutely strip the detainee of any dignity. It breaks down someone's sense of impenetrability. The interrogation became a process not just of getting information but of utterly subordinating the detainee through humiliation."

There you go... now you know what's behind my bright and breezy step today. New video shortly.

Posted by Manic on August 10, 2007 8:58 AM in the category It's War! It's Legal! It's Lovely!

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Ten percent are today quoting JustForeignPolicy.com's estimate that over one million Iraqis are now dead as a consequence of the invasion.
JPF have a nice wee fatality counter to put on websites too:-
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
http://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/milestones-of-tombstones-iraq-invasion-has-killed-1-million

And before we get the usual NewLabour NeoCons whining like stuck pigs about the estimate, let's remind them that Downing Street eventually conceded that the Lancet got it right:-
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2396031.ece

Posted by: irritant at August 10, 2007 11:37 AM

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	« We all scream for... \| Main \| You know the drill » August 10, 2007 Take the blue pill Shh! Researching and building for a quick video (coming very soon!) Have some of this (via)... Vanity Fair - Rorschach and Awe: I did not set out to discover how America got into the business of torturing detainees. I wasn't even trying to learn how America found out who was behind 9/11. I was attempting to explain why psychologists, alone among medical professionals, were participating in military interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.... And this... New Yorker - The Black Sites: A rare look inside the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program: As the C.I.A. captured and interrogated other Al Qaeda figures, it established a protocol of psychological coercion. The program tied together many strands of the agency's secret history of Cold War-era experiments in behavioral science... A person involved in the Council of Europe inquiry, referring to cavity searches and the frequent use of suppositories during the takeout of detainees, likened the treatment to "sodomy." He said, "It was used to absolutely strip the detainee of any dignity. It breaks down someone's sense of impenetrability. The interrogation became a process not just of getting information but of utterly subordinating the detainee through humiliation." There you go... now you know what's behind my bright and breezy step today. New video shortly. Posted by Manic on August 10, 2007 8:58 AM in the category It's War! It's Legal! It's Lovely! Pings (Trackback) For trackbacks, this is the URL: http://www.bloggerheads.com/cgi-bin/mt-tbbh_20x07.pl/1524 Comments Ten percent are today quoting JustForeignPolicy.com's estimate that over one million Iraqis are now dead as a consequence of the invasion. JPF have a nice wee fatality counter to put on websites too:- http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html http://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/milestones-of-tombstones-iraq-invasion-has-killed-1-million And before we get the usual NewLabour NeoCons whining like stuck pigs about the estimate, let's remind them that Downing Street eventually conceded that the Lancet got it right:- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2396031.ece Posted by: irritant at August 10, 2007 11:37 AM Post a comment Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you're new to Bloggerheads, you may need to be approved by the moderator before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) URL: Remember me? YesNo Comments:

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