Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Back to the Future in Torture Policy »

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When the Abu Ghraib photos were released in 2004, it seemed that most Americans were shocked by such novel and horrific images, but at least one was not. I'm talking about Alfred McCoy, who had been following the Central Intelligence Agency since the early 1970s, when it unsuccessfully tried to stop the publication of his book, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade .

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    jovial6 months, 2 weeks ago

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    Some interesting information on the torture issue. A brief but revealing glimpse into how torture was started.

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      CHAM6 months, 2 weeks ago

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      Jovial, this is an excellent post. But it leaves me to wonder: How many more stories, articles, commentaries, books, month on months end, maybe years, will it be before I begin to see something written about the people who were tortured to death?

      This article is about psychological torture, and even implies that the Bush method was only that psychological.

      Jovial, tens of thousands were tortured and an uncounted number were tortured to death. Not a peep can be read about that. There was reference in this article to the Abu Gharib photos of torture, and sure enough, nothing said about the most famous Abu Gharib photo of them all- the one with the woman soldier standing over the body of a detainee, giving the v for victory sign. The dead detainee was Manadel Al Jamidi, who had just been tortured to death by Palestinian Hanging, not a psychological torture. He was one of two to be tortured to death by the Palestinian Hanging method that Nov 4 night in 2003. The torturers were Navy Seals and Mercenaries. Just two of the hundreds to be tortured to death - so far.

      These are war crimes, something that our Government pushed for the death penalty at Nuremberg. Now our Government tries to sell to America that torture is AOK.

      We have lost our moral direction.

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