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2009-05-09 08:36 AM
Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
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Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney and their fellow Republicans have dropped the term "torture" from their vocabulary, preferring instead to use "enhanced interrogation techniques". So how do you differentiate between the two? Andrew Sullivan in his
blog article of May 29, 2007
has uncovered the definition the German Nazis applied for "enhanced interrogation techniques".
"It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court. The methods, as you can see above (blog link) are indistinguishable from those described as "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the president (Bush)."
Mitt Romney in the the
May 15, 2007 Republican presidential debate
endorsed "enhanced interrogation techniques" on the prisoners at Gitmo, but not torture:
"Some people have said, we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo. We ought to make sure that the terrorists -- (applause) -- and there's no question but that in a setting like that where you have a ticking bomb that the president of the United States -- not the CIA interrogator, the president of the United States -- has to make the call. And enhanced interrogation techniques have to be used -- not torture but enhanced interrogation techniques, yes."
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