Why didn't waterboarding work?
It seems increasingly clear that waterboarding was conducted to force a confession about ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq. After all the recent accounts on how effective waterboarding can be in getting people to say whatever the interrogator wants, why didn't it work? Why didn't the Bush administration succeed in getting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to say he was involved with Al Qaeda, despite waterboarding him 183 times?
Perhaps they did get a confession yet knew it was inadmissible (or invalid) due to the circumstances under which it was elicited. But then why waterboard if the results couldn't be announced proudly to the world: "IRAQI OFFICIAL ADMITS TIES TO AL QAEDA!"?
Perhaps the only explanation is that Bush officials honestly thought there were ties and that waterboarding worked. This is a defense but not a good one because it shows, in yet another way, how they were not listening to so many military and intelligence professionals who knew both.
What do you think?
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Perhaps they did get a confession yet knew it was inadmissible (or invalid) due to the circumstances under which it was elicited. But then why waterboard if the results couldn't be announced proudly to the world: "IRAQI OFFICIAL ADMITS TIES TO AL QAEDA!"?
Perhaps the only explanation is that Bush officials honestly thought there were ties and that waterboarding worked. This is a defense but not a good one because it shows, in yet another way, how they were not listening to so many military and intelligence professionals who knew both.
What do you think?
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I'm sure TheraP will come up with another grand unifying theory that will explain everything on the levels on neurons and show you how things fit together perfectly.
By the way, that will exclude anything that can be described as "Bush officials honestly thought"...
May 31, 2009 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
The reason for that, you slobbering pinhead, is that there has not been any documented instance of honest thought in the Bush administration. Nor from you, now that I think of it.
May 31, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink