[lbo-talk] Americans sorta like torture if it works

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 17:00:01 PDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au>wrote:


> Torture was very effective at getting people to confess to being witches.
>
> So it would be a good way to get Cheney to confess to war crimes. But we
> wouldn't learn anything new. We already know he's guilty of war crimes and
> anything else that he confessed to would be of doubtful use, because he'd be
> likely to say anything. We wouldn't know what was true and what was made up
> because he thought that's what we wanted to hear.

I think fat Cheney with his multiple heart by-pass surgeries might last very little on an interrogation table, sadly.

;-)

FC



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