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American Torture - From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Hardcover)
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American Torture - From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Hardcover)
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George W. Bush calls them an 'alternative set of procedures', vital
tools needed 'to protect the American people and our allies'. These
'tools' include forced standing for up to forty hours, sleep
deprivation for weeks on end, dousing naked prisoners with ice
water in rooms chilled to ten degrees, and strapping prisoners to
inclined boards then flooding their mouths with water. These
techniques are torture, and they are used by the United States of
America. American Torture reveals how torture became standard
practice in today's War on Terror. Long before Abu Ghraib became a
household name, the US military and CIA used torture with impunity
at home and abroad. Billions of dollars were spent during the Cold
War studying, refining, then teaching these techniques to American
interrogators and to foreign officers charged with keeping
Communism at bay. As the Cold War ended, these tortures were
legalised using the very laws designed to eradicate their use.
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