[Vision2020] Jennifer Harbury: "Truth,

[Tom Hansen]

Are you suggesting, Ted, that . . . 

Because the US has utilized torture since Vietnam (a claim that I believe 
to be fact based on scenarios explained to me by friends while in the 
Army), that it is OK to apply torture tactics today?

One torture tactic explained to me:  A Handful of NVA or VC POWs would be 
taken to an altitude of a few thousand feet in a Huey.  At that time they 
would be interrogated.  If there were no response, or if the interrogator 
did not like the response, the POW was tossed from the helicopter.  
Usually, by the fourth or fifth POW, the POWs were more than willing to 
provide answers to the interrogator.  Whether or not the answers were 
truthful is open for debate.  But, we all know how Vietnam turned out.

Bottom Line:  Torture is torture and is simply WRONG!

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=6228&SectionName=
> 
> http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?
ProgramId=6228&SectionName=&PlayMedia=No
> 
> C-Cpan 2 tonight presented a lecture and question and answer session
> featuring Jennifer Harbury, regarding her book "Truth, Torture, and the
> American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in 
Torture."
> Her presentation was the most informed, well reasoned and passionate
> offering on this issue that I have ever experienced.  She made clear the
> fact that torture as a tactic of the US military or US intelligence
> operatives (CIA et. al.) has been utilized during and since the Vietnam 
War,
> in Central America, and as we know, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is thus 
not
> a new development in the War on Terror since 9/11.
> 
> I'm not sure her lecture and presentation will be run again on C-Span, 
but
> it should be...
> 
> Ted Moffett
> 


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