Saturday, September 09, 2006

What George Bush Didn't Say About Guantanamo

AGAIN, AGAIN ... THE 'WAR ON TERROR' IS A FRAUD & A DISASTER FOR THE COUNTRY.

Exclusive perspective from Truthout.org:

"According to Bush, secret prisons and torture have kept America safe. Not entirely true. While fessing up to the secret prisons, one of the critical things Bush failed to tell the American people was that CIA interrogators learned the hard way that torture was not an effective interrogation method. Books written by Jim Risen and Ron Suskind during the past two years provide compelling accounts that torture against people, particularly Khalid Sheikh Mohamad (KSM), was ineffective. Suskind recounts that KSM, one of the masterminds behind the 9-11 attack, was waterboarded - a technique designed to make you feel like you are drowning. Interrogators also threatened to rape and murder his family. KSM reportedly replied, "Do what you will, my family will be with God."


Bush also neglected to mention that, despite his previous criticism of the Clinton Administration for not fighting terrorism as a military threat, almost all of the Al Qaeda operatives cited in his speech were captured through intelligence operations. In other words, most of the successes we have achieved as a nation in tracking down and capturing terrorists has been the work of law enforcement and and intelligence officials, not our soldiers. " (FCF emphasis)

Read the complete summation of the speech at:
Larry C Johnson: What George Bush Didn't Say About Guantanamo

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