Rumsfeld To Hell: "Get The Kettle On, I'm Coming"

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration "conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees," claims a Senate Armed Services Committee report issued Thursday

"According to the committee, prisoners were tortured in the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other US military installations."

Why does the Bush Administration say we do not torture? Dana Parino says it all the time. It's a lie.

The report determined that placing the blame on "a few bad apples," as Bush administration officials attempted to do in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal, is inappropriate.

This was a top down decision. Soldiers were not asking their superiors to do this. Bush, Cheney, Tenet, Ashcroft, Powell and Rice, aka "The Principals", all have their hands in this, too. This is not a few bad apples, this is War Crimes, Inc.

The Senate report confirms that senior administration officials authorized torture. Specifically, they authorized the "SERE" techniques -- which had been originally used decades ago to train American troops to withstand Communist torture -- to be used on detainees. In other words, they used illegal medieval methods designed to obtain false confessions, and made them the centerpiece of our intelligence-gathering.

Remember this report from ABC?



And for the mental Neanderthals who think torture works,

the report finally claims that Rumsfeld's torture policies "damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies and compromised our moral authority."

Perfect score, Don, proceed to Hell.

Source: NYT