1115: Interrogators began telling detainee how ungrateful and grumpy he was. In order to escalate the detainee’s emotions, a mask was made from an MRE box with a smily face on it and placed on the detainee’s head for a few moments. A latex glove was inflated and labeled the “sissy slap” glove. The glove was touched to the detainee’s face periodically after explaining the terminology to him. The mask was placed back on the detainee’s head. While wearing the mask, the team began dance instruction with the detainee. The detainee became agitated and began shouting.”
Time Magazine tells the torrid tale of a terrible torture. Translated, that means that Time Magainze is reporting the awful and horrid abuse of a GITMO detainee. What’s most shocking about this story is – nothing.
The U.S. military routinely treats its own elite forces worse than what is described here while preparing them for the possibility of actual combat against enemies. Time is merely attempting to be sensationalist by pandering to an audience of fat, spoiled people who have mostly never experienced any real hardship in their overly protected lives.
SERE Level C training is much harsher than what is being described above. If our own troops are being exposed to psychological stress tactics for training purposes, why shouldn’t a potential mass murderer and suspected or proven enemy combatant be exposed to the same thing?
Some days, I think the enemy within – the fat, soft, and ignorant parasites in our society – those whose biggest contribution is complain about everything, will be the ones who bring us down. Fighting and winning isn’t a problem if you are prepared to face the reality that comes with such a commitment.
I’ve argued in this blog that torture is wrong I stand by that argument. But let’s all work on a common definition of torture – I’ll use the dictionary one as a starting point.
tor·ture
1. Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion.
2. Excruciating physical or mental pain; agony: the torture of waiting in suspense.
3. Something causing severe pain or anguish.
Neal Boortz lists some of the “torture” that was inflicted on a GITMO detainee:
“* Daily interviews that sometimes began at 4 a.m. and continued until midnight. Long day. Poor baby. Should of thought about that before you attacked America.
* He was asked to bark like a dog. Oh, the humanity!
* He was shown pictures of the 9/11 attacks. How could we be so cruel?
* He was asked to write letters of apology to the families of 9/11 victims. Write? He can write?
* Refusal of bathroom breaks, resulting in al-Qahtani peeing his pants. Wahh.
* Interrogators woke this character up with Christina Aguilera music at midnight to start the questioning. A little harsh, but it could be worse. He could have been shown Paris Hilton’s sex video, but that should only be a last resort.
* A female interrogator violated his personal space! Oh my God, not that!
* Other assorted methods included standing for prolonged periods, isolation for up to 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair and hanging pictures of half-naked women around his neck. Awww.”
Give me a break. I am a basically trained Marine and I was subjected to the same types of games. That is all they are. Games. Anyone without the inherent mental weakness we seem to be culling in our current generations of Americans would survive this sort of stuff without blinking an eye. I know, because I did.
Our real special forces types – the Recon Marines, SEALs and Green Berets, to name a few, eat this sort of psyops stuff, digest it, crap it out and keep moving. I’d like to see the Congressmen who are complaining about the treatment of these prisoners of war be forced to undergo a shortened SERE type course as a condition of their continued service to country. What a bunch of pathetic mental midgets. They are doing their constituents and the country they claim to serve a great disservice.
Time Magazine should be ashamed of its sensationalism and silliness in calling the treatment of Detainee 063 “torture.” Grow up, you’re hurting Americans by publishing this tripe. If you have evidence that people are being beaten, killed or disappeared while under American jurisdiction, I want to hear it. Till then, STFU. You’re urinating on the memories of the people who jumped, were burned up or crushed to death on September 11, 2001.
Update: Powerline provides a link to a Department of Defense Memo regarding Guantanamo Bay, and defending the mission and methods there.