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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Petraeus Caesar on Darth Cheney's Passtime

John Amato has the interview where the Commander of CentCom goes on the record saying he doesn't like torture [nor the mercenaries who do it].

...I do support is what has been termed the responsible closure of Gitmo. Gitmo has caused us problems, there's no question about it. I oversee a region in which the existence of Gitmo has been used by the enemy against us. We have not been without missteps or mistakes in our activity since 9/11 and again Gitmo is a lingering reminder for the use of some in that regard.

...actually what I would ask is, does that not take away from our enemies a tool which again have beaten us around the head and shoulders in the court of public opinion? When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions, we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward I think it's important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those...


Somewhere a Sith Lord's respirator labors as his sphincter is contracting.

The Caesar doesn't like torture because operationally it doesn't give the desirable results especially if everyone knows it's going on.

Just in case you thought there was a humane component involved somewhere.

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