http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802242_pf.html

excerpt:

I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse.

Video interview on FOX.

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What torture? You mean the media-generated non-event?

You deny that the US has used torture?

Denial may not be a river but it runs deep. If we torture, we confirm their every suspicion about us and prompt them to tell lies to make it stop.

If we treat them with decency and respect, it confuses them and makes them wonder if they've been lied to about us. My take, anyway.

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Define torture.

Define torture.

is this what you are talking about ? http://torturingdemocracy.org/

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I did not vote for John McCain, but I think he knows a thing or two about torture.

He thinks we should abide by the geneva convention.

I agree with him.

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Somewhere there is a line between what is and isn't torture. I don't know where that line is, but I believe that the Bush administration has allowed, or even directed, agents of our government to be on the wrong side of that line in recent years.

Your question seems to imply that all this talk about torture is a "media-generated non-event." Therefore I assume that you have a definition of torture and believe that we have not engaged in torture to any significant degree. Perhaps you could elaborate, because that position seems contrary to the evidence I've seen.

That is absolute crap. Seriously. So if we hadn't "tortured" anyone in Gitmo, the Iraq takeover would have been a cake-walk? Al-Qaeda would have just let us have Afghanistan and Iraq? They wouldn't have recruited more fighters and they wouldn't have done any suicide bombings? What moron could believe that except a bonehead "journalist" in the year 2008 who just repeats what he hears rather than investigates what might be the truth.

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You are attempting to refute claims that nobody has made.Um, perhaps you should actually read the article and the little bio at the end:

They can't, they can speculate on what they think is torture but since they have never undergone any type of torture training the closest they can get is a spanking from their mom, spanking is considered torture by the anti talkin to crowd btw.

I don't call it torture btw, its a talking to or information gathering in my dictionary.

Not that I agree or disagree, but this is the claim....
"I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse."

The definition changes if we are doing it to them or
if they are doing it to us.

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