Comments by "Edward Bernayse666" (@edwardbernayse6665) on "The Architect of the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Program, James Mitchell" video.

study after study including this latest report show that torture is an unreliable way of getting information. just come clean and say that you don't care if it is unreliable as far as intelligence gathering and say that you are angry at the terrorists that did 9/11 and it makes you feel good knowing that anybody who was connected to 9/11 is being tortured (even though as i said in my previous comment, most of them were not connected).
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we aren't in any new world. we are still in the same dark ages mentality world that we've always been in apparently. our schools must have given us an overly rosy view of the way things are and the direction that we were heading towards. people tortured people in the dark ages and in the 21st century, we are still just as savage and barbaric. torturing these detainees did nothing as far as intelligence gathering and it helped terrorists to recruit. it should have never happened. the usa is supposed to be better than that. this is the ideals that i was always taught about the usa in school and in the media. apparently it was all propaganda.
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jeffrey milnes i think that some of those wars like ones involving inner muslim conflicts should be left alone and we should just let them learn the hard way how stupid and pointless wars really are. if sunnis and shiites want to fight over something that has nothing to do with the west then those ones are ones that we should stay out of.
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mullet head there's still no logic at all to wanting to continue to torture them. there is no strategic objective that is effective and the argument made by politicians to continue based on a disproven assertion that it is strategically effective in gathering important information. logic and rationality and facts should supercede the emotional desire for scapegoating and revenge. especially when you want revenge on people that you have scapegoated and who you have chosen to represent the group or individual that you desire revenge upon. when you allow your anger to dictate your actions like in the case of those who mistakenly from a rational point of view support the torture of these detainees then you "throw fuel on the fire" and make it much harder to achieve your overall objective. in other words, you encourage far more sympathy for the group that you hate and that leads to their movement to grow exponentially which is what happened when they tortured these detainees who had no connections to 9/11.
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theknob1 dude you have problems if you are going to see political ideology as an "us vs them" "good vs evil" scenario. there is no us or them or good or evil. there is just a bunch of individuals with their own independent opinions. seriously you sound like a real moron. torture has been proven to not be an effective way of gathering intelligence study after study. you say it's "propaganda?" present your evidence that it is propaganda.just becaue it contradicts how you want things to be doesn't make it propaganda. "seek you the truth and the truth shall set you free."-jesus. wise words, i think that you think that you are following that wisdom but i think that you are fooling yourself and are choosing to fall for old sophist tricks and letting people get away with telling you things without them proving it to you.
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Benjamine Franklin the ones that you mentioned only made up a small percentage of the detainees. most of them were illiterate, pashtun goat herders who were given a gun by a taliban elder and told that they were being invaded, they needed to abandon their goat herd and come join the fight. that's who most of the detainees were at GITMO. they were even cleared for release by the pentagon but congress blocked their release. didn't you ever hear about that or have you been listening to mainstream news up until now?
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you must not have heard of the pentagon clearing over half of the detainees almost 10 years ago for not being connected to 9/11. also torture has been shown to be ineffective as far as intelligence gathering. if you are really just angry at the terrorists who did 9/11 and you want to see anyone who was connected to it tortured then just admit it and quit with this bullshit about it being a reliable way of gathering information because it doesn't. it gets us nowhere in a discussion or a debate.
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actually most of the detainees turned out to be illiterate pashtun goat herders who were given a gun and told by the taliban that their country was being invaded. they were even given a clearance for release by the pentagon but nobody wanted them and congress wouldn't approve of letting them go.
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