The successful hijacking of the torture debate by its proponents obscures the underlying facts, as Kagro makes abundantly clear:
Private contractors were conducting torture
It was torture for political gain
Pollsters should be asking if Americans support using torture to extract false confessions for political purposes, because that's what happened
There were no "ticking time bombs" -- as former State Department official Lawrence Wilkerson and McClatchey have confirmed, torture was conducted to extract false evidence linking Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. It was ordered by Dick Cheney and George Bush
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