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The first Guantanamo detainee to be formally charged under the new military commission rules, David Hicks, has alleged in a court document filed here that during nearly 5 years in American custody he has been frequently beaten during interrogations, and that as a result he "cooperated" with his interrogators.

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jovial
March 19, 2007, 12:55 p.m.
They can get you to say anything they want. I don't care how strong you think you are. Any man can be broken.
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ETproductions
March 20, 2007, 12:54 a.m.
Watching the trials unfold under the MCA, we seem to be finding out that everybody we ever arrested and detained in the outsourced prisons or in GITMO all were guilty of all the same set of crimes. They were all the mastermind behind each particular attack.
Torture really works to seek justice. Let's move it into the US judicial process. The cops, being always right (there have NEVER been people accused that were not guilty, even when DNA proved otherwise) should just beat the crap out of every American citizen till the finally confess, at which time they should be put to death, since they just admitted they were guilty.
Makes the investigative process SOOOO much more easy.
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crespi
March 20, 2007, 2:17 a.m.
I heard his wallaby's pocket was full of C4 and something about a croc-launcher...
-Harsh Alert-
Seriously, when George H.W. Bush flew the 100 or so members of Bin Laden's family out of the country the day after 911 (they're still old family friends from his overseas oil dealing and CIA days,) when Osama was actually in a house not in the mountains, many, many people wondered why Mr. Bush Sr. was not at that time taken to the Guantanamo secret prison facility to have a cattle prod applied to his *censored* until he "shared his feelings" about some of these events.
Oh, I'm truly sorry. I guess it's his SON who openly advocates torture of American citizens.
My bad.
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crespi
March 20, 2007, 10:30 a.m.
My point is that both Bushes should be held in Guantanamo and tortured until they confess (in accordance with their own policy.)
We must follow the wishes of the President.