Posted on 12/10/2014 8:24:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The release of the already discredited Senate “torture report” has left liberals in a state of gleeful pearl clutching as they pretended to be shocked by the shocking revelation that enhanced interrogation can mean sleep deprivation and assorted mind games.
Meanwhile here’s a little reminder of what real torture looks like as perpetrated by the Taliban.
I was one of the Taliban’s torturers: I crucified people
Instead of just searching for criminals, the night patrols were instructed to seek out people watching videos, playing cards or, bizarrely, keeping caged birds. Men without long enough beards were to be arrested, as was any woman who dared venture outside her house. Even owning a kite became a criminal offence.
“Basically any form of pleasure was outlawed,” Mr Hassani said, “and if we found people doing any of these things we would beat them with staves soaked in water – like a knife cutting through meat – until the room ran with their blood or their spines snapped. Then we would leave them with no food or water in rooms filled with insects until they died.
“We always tried to do different things: we would put some of them standing on their heads to sleep, hang others upside down with their legs tied together. We would stretch the arms out of others and nail them to posts like crucifixions.”
“Maybe the worst thing I saw,” he said, “was a man beaten so much, such a pulp of skin and blood, that it was impossible to tell whether he had clothes on or not. Every time he fell unconscious, we rubbed salt into his wounds to make him scream.”
He was told that if he died while fighting under the white flag of the Taliban, he and his family would go to paradise. The soldiers were given blank marriage certificates signed by a mullah and were encouraged to “take wives” during battle, basically a licence to rape.
These were the monsters that liberals went out of their way to defend, whose cause they took up at Gitmo and whose interrogations they are now outraged by. What happened to detained Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Gitmo wasn’t torture. This was torture.
Yeah, the definition of “torture” has been considerably eroded since Guy Fawkes’ time. Nowadays, serving arugula on an unchilled salad plate is considered torture by — ironically (and hypocritically) — people who routinely behead children and flay the flesh off living victims.
We have no apologies to make to these wretches. Nothing we could do to them compares to what they do in the course of a normal day.
Let’s not omit the case at Fallujah where a man had his stomach opened and a fire was set on his entrials ...
a compassionate bunch.
Yep very compassionate, unlike the evil Bush CIA where people were inconvenienced and made generally miserable ...
The “ultimate torture” is living in a society where any LIBs/DIMs/RINOs are allowed to assume positions of authority or responsibility. That is aptly described as “living Hell”.
stay out the bushes, much.....
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