Torture is an international and US crime.
Does the United States want to be or look like the street thug, an international bully, or an international criminal to alienate allies, used for propaganda to recruit terrorists and increase terrorism?
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Does the Unites States stand for Justice, with the justification to go after international criminals where ever they hide, with the support of allies and the international community?
Dick Cheney advocates torture for his own gain, and that of the Bush administration, and not that of the United States.
"The ends justify the means and Dick Cheney protected us." No, Dick Cheney tried to “cover his ass”, and the Bush administrations, and tried to obtain false confessions linked to Iraq. Dick Cheney lied to you the same way the Bush administration lied to invade Iraq.
The psychological manipulation of, the pretense or deception of, wanting a false confession; the threat of wanting false or pretense of wanting false confessions, to prevent exposure. In other words, wanting or using the deception of wanting a false confession has the opposite or reverse effect, the victims ceases all communication or cooperation. You would believe or think that torture is used to obtain the truth, but it's actually used in many cases to do the opposite.
There’s a reason why law enforcement can’t beat false confessions out of prisoners, it’s because it does not work and the information obtained is invalid. The other point is that during a war, if your enemy captures troops that have information about an incoming attack, you're most likely to change your plans or where you'll attack, given the fact that your attack plans have been compromised.
Dick Cheney’s Reasoning and Argument Example
I know for a fact that Dick Cheney claimed the United States would be attacked again, because he was hoping that the United States would be attacked again, so that he could somehow be vindicated and gain politically. He should be handed over to a special unit for “advanced interrogation techniques” for a few months. After he’s confessed to this fact, he can be sentenced and sent to “limbo Guantanamo” forever. Given the fact that he’s now confessed, the special unit cannot be prosecuted for using “special discussion techniques”, and saved us from Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney a Threat to US National Security
After 911 the Republicans gained politically and they used this power to violate and justify actions that violated US laws and international laws too. Fear was also used extensively to manipulate the US population, a rhetoric of fear and isolation, which was used to reduce their rights or gain more power over them. One of the ways they were manipulated was with impending threats of attacks and alert levels that fluctuated.
Dick Cheney is now also continuing his rhetoric of fear and impending attack, while the Obama administration is making progress internationally, and has endangered the United States. In the world of shadows, the enemies of the United States may actually attack now to give the Republicans, who are at an all time low and under political turmoil, a boost politically. Given the economic, international, and domestic harm the Republicans have done over the years, the enemies of the United States would gain, by a gain in popularity for the Republicans. An attack would also permit some Republicans, and Dick Cheney himself, the possibility to escape any prosecution or justice.
“Security and Authority - attacks to increase powerSecurity authorities or organizations will sometimes provoke and welcome attacks on themselves or those they are sworn to protect, and in some cases they may even attack themselves, so that they can obtain more power and authority over those they are said to protect.”
Justice Dept and CIA
Possible prosecution revolves around those who sanctioned these decisions that violated international laws, not what information was obtained, and Dick Cheney sanctioned and advocates torture. Reports of success can easily be fabricated through interrogations that produce false confessions and false information. The use of torture it’s self discredits and renders any possible information that Dick Cheney would like to protect himself or his actions with, invalid. The information obtained is similar to the information that “justified” the invasion of Iraq.
Those in the justice department that supported and complied with the demands of the Bush administration were “rewarded” while those who did not were “dismissed”.
The CIA is also often used to take the blame for different actions or demands from current administrations; in this case it is the Bush administration.
The United States has no problem on waging war on enemies or criminals, but when a US administration commits crimes or tries to circumvent international laws or US laws, it “loses” in more ways than one.
Bush Administration Legal Dept and US Army Personnel
Lawyers were drafting "legal mambo jumbo" memos.With things being "legal", when subordinates do not do what they are told, the result is usually dismissal. For army personnel dismissal and the repercussions of not following orders or dismissal are not the same as simply losing your job, it can result in court-martial and prison time.
"To violate the statute, an individual must have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," "Because specific intent is an element of the offense, the absence of specific intent negates the charge of torture. ... We have further found that if a defendant acts with the good faith belief that his actions will not cause such suffering, he has not acted with specific intent,"
The intent is to use force and harm, torture, and claim that there is no specific intent to escape prosecution. Another intent is to use people’s ignorance that psychological torture is not harmful or does not inflict suffering.
Torture and Water boarding
Psychological torture is usually used because of its invisibility, and to try to escape prosecution, but it has serious mental and physical effects.
The difference between me and you water boarding each other is that the stress and fear level is not the same, it isn’t real or real torture. To give you an example, I’ve seen people drive nails into their hands for entertainment, and laugh at it. Now use the same torture practice, on the same person, will produce a different reaction on this person.
Another example of torture “real and not real” is that some people love getting scared. They’ll go on a roller coaster ride or watch horror movies. Now take this same person and pretend you are going to kill them every day, in some way. With a gun with no bullets “click” in back of the head execution style, that you are burring them alive, or that you are about to throw them over a cliff. This same person will not appreciate the fear and torture.
Degrading themes and humiliation were used in this example. “Other memos allowed the use of such tactics as keeping a detainee naked and in some cases in a diaper, and putting detainees on a liquid diet…"Detainees subject to sleep deprivation who are also subject to nudity as a separate interrogation technique will at times be nude and wearing a diaper,"”
Sleep deprivation and a liquid diet do affect the body physically and can lead to very serious illnesses, one of them being acid-base disorders.
High levels of stress, sleep deprivation, and liquid diets all reduce macrominerals like potassium in your body which leads to acid-base disorders. The reduction in macrominerals and higher levels of cortisol can also lead to PTSD.
PTSD is similar to fear conditioning. It involves high levels of stress, fear, and cortisol. The cortisol levels imprints areas of the brain that are also associated to fear, so what happens is that when you experience similar sounds, images, or environment you can re-experience those emotions of high stress or fear.Fear de-conditioning involves people being exposed to the same experience without fear.
Irak War
Dick Cheney is also from a “war corporation” or in the business of war and the Bush family in the oil business. Were the people of Guantanamo actually ever convicted in a real court or just used as a distraction while the United States was being defrauded?
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