Tuesday, February 10, 2015

More on #iraq, #torture, #oil and #war: Speaker at WUSTL Business School justifies use of torture in Iraq

http://www.studlife.com/news/2015/02/09/mba-student-gives-talk-about-role-in-capture-of-saddam-hussein/

Question is, most torture produced nothing?
"Ultimately, after over 200 prisoners and three months of interrogation, a prisoner gave up the name of Mohammed Ibrahim Omar al-Muslit, one of Hussein’s most trusted bodyguards."
Was this a confession, or a celebration?
“Here’s the policy that I would love to tell the president or Congress or whoever the decision makers are: was there torture? Yes. Yes, we all know that. If you don’t, there was,” Maddox said. “But they’re not mean people; there’s probably no more intelligent group of workers in the military than the interrogators."
New word for torture, the "new method":
Maddox stressed that interrogators resorted to torture because the old techniques weren’t working. Even for himself, he had to resort to his new method because the old techniques weren’t breaking his prisoners.”
Yes, academic freedom, oh, but the ethics and the pesky issue of international law:
The event was organized by the Young Presidents’ Organization—Next Generation group on campus. The group is a subset of the Young Presidents’ Organization—World Presidents’ Organization, which is a network of CEOs from around the world. The “next-generation” group is for children of members in YPO-WPO.
The group is not funded by Student Union because of its specific eligibility requirements but has gotten support from the Olin Business School.
Update  (February 11-12, 2014).
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