Torture: Be Proud of Your Heritage, America!

Comrades,

You Americans are never ceasing in causing my belly to be rumbling with uncontrollable laughter!

You are remembering once before I was telling you the true purpose of torture [HERE], yes? Or in words of your Vice President Dick, “enhanced interrogation.”

LOL! Comrades, you Americans and your resistance to unpleasant truths! Why are you not simply “calling a spade a spade?”

America has engaged in torture.

Really, comrades. It is nothing to be ashamed of. Your country has joined good company. I was seeing much torture during my time in both KGB and GRU; my old country was engaging in torture for many decades.

Our comrades in North Vietnam during your war in the 1960s were engaging in torture, as many of your veterans can be remembering.

Please be remembering [HERE] also, friends, that my old country’s comrades in North Korea were developing the techniques your Bush administration would be using as template for your…I am giggling just using your term…”enhanced interrogation!”

Comrades, YOUR CIA was using THEIR manual!

I am still LOLing!

But your nation is now being able to proudly stand shoulder-to-shoulder with such distinguished nations as Augusto Pinochet’s Chile, and Pol Pot’s Cambodia.

My friends, your nation can now even be counted among the Axis Powers of World War II as participants in unnecessarily inflicting pain on your prisoners!

But I am not seeing how you will be reconciling the fact that the Allies prosecuted Japanese jailers for doing what your CIA has been doing [HERE]. Perhaps by redefining waterboarding as “fraternity prank” [HERE], yes?

So be holding your head high, comrade! Please do not be letting news such as [HERE] turn your smile upside down into a frown:

Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots
Waterboarding, Rough Interrogation of Abu Zubaida Produced False Leads, Officials Say

[...]The application of techniques such as waterboarding -- a form of simulated drowning that U.S. officials had previously deemed a crime -- prompted a sudden torrent of names and facts. Abu Zubaida began unspooling the details of various al-Qaeda plots, including plans to unleash weapons of mass destruction.

Abu Zubaida's revelations triggered a series of alerts and sent hundreds of CIA and FBI investigators scurrying in pursuit of phantoms. The interrogations led directly to the arrest of Jose Padilla, the man Abu Zubaida identified as heading an effort to explode a radiological "dirty bomb" in an American city. Padilla was held in a naval brig for 3 1/2 years on the allegation but was never charged in any such plot. Every other lead ultimately dissolved into smoke and shadow, according to high-ranking former U.S. officials with access to classified reports.

"We spent millions of dollars chasing false alarms," one former intelligence official said.[...]

Comrades, I am LOLing so much my nose is no longer vibrating! Apparently, your intelligence services are possessing of little intelligence. It has been known fact for very, very, very long time that torture…oops, sorry comrades…”enhanced interrogation” seldom is producing any reliable information.

Was your government believing that the Spanish actually were uncovering vast plots of witchcraft and heresy during the Inquisition?

Was your government also believing your Republican Presidential candidate John McCain was lying when he described giving false information [Here]?

I am LOLling! Your government must have been believing this for them to rely on such information!

Torture is not effective means of obtaining information. But it is effective means of punishing those foolish enough to allow themselves to be captured by your military. Is also useful for instilling terror in citizenry.

Your Constitution is small price to pay for modicum of security, yes?

-Dasvedanya!

Cross posted @ the Good Kentuckian