January 14, 2009

Defining Torture Down

The new definition of "torture:"

"For 160 days his only contact was with the interrogators," said Crawford, who personally reviewed Qahtani's interrogation records and other military documents. "Forty-eight of 54 consecutive days of 18-to-20-hour interrogations. Standing naked in front of a female agent. Subject to strip searches. And insults to his mother and sister."

At one point he was threatened with a military working dog named Zeus, according to a military report. Qahtani "was forced to wear a woman's bra and had a thong placed on his head during the course of his interrogation" and "was told that his mother and sister were whores." With a leash tied to his chains, he was led around the room "and forced to perform a series of dog tricks," the report shows.

That's it? Where's the torture?

I got news for ya. My fraternity did worse than this every night of Hell Week. This is not torture. Torture is plucking out fingernails or hooking up testicles to car batteries. Torture is breaking bones on a rack or shoving a screwdriver through somebody's hand. Torture is having your throat-slit and being beheaded while your murderers euphorically chant to Allah and send the videotape to CNN. Torture is what is done to people that are captured by the associates and friends of Qahtani.

This sounds more like hazing, and wimpy hazing at that. This guy was the 20th hijacker? Anything he got was too good for him.

By Good Lt. at 09:34 AM | |