Al-Qaeda suspects were brought to the 'point of death' during 'real torture' by CIA

[nilesobek]

43. Already trained in torture?

That should be put in recruiting videos they show on the Sunday NFL games. We've been training in torture since Eisenhower? I'm 51 years old and have read thousands of books about ww2 and warfare in general and haven't ever heard of this. Sure, isolated atrocities were committed during that war, but "moderate pressure," or torture seems to be a thing of the present, since 9/11.

It might be interesting for a journalist to do an expose on the progression of torture becoming official policy. Something that gets behind the media bubble and names names. I really want to know all the details, since my tax money is paying the salaries.

As you can probably tell, I don't agree with you on this but just respectively disagree, not freaking out. Growing up in America I was always told we were the good guys, we didn't lower ourselves to that. Bomb their cities, destroy the enemy's military, defeat them, vanquish them with America's mighty right and left arms. But torture? Do we really have to roll in the gutter?