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Of course. Uninformed parents and their offspring are what we need.</p>
<p>There is not a single shred of evidence that any soldiers trained at Fort Benning were trained in torture techniques. They learn how to jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and how to survive in swamps. If the goofballs had a shred, they would have presented it.</p>
<p>guess the manual on beatins, executions, etc wasn’t enough for you…WASHINGTON (CNN) – Manuals used by the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas between 1982 and 1991 appeared to condone executions, beatings and other human rights abuses, the Pentagon said in a disclosure that prompted renewed calls for the school’s closure.
The Pentagon on Friday disclosed English translations of portions of seven training manuals it said were pulled from use in 1991 by then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. He determined that the language violated U.S. policy. At the time, the Pentagon conducted a review of the training materials and reported the findings to Congress in closed briefings.</p>
<p>Torture Manuals in use at School of Americas, 1982-1991 </p>
<p>On Sept. 20, 1996, Pentagon officials announced that U.S. Army training manuals used to instruct Latin American military officers and soldiers at the SOA from 1982 until 1991, advocated torture, blackmail, and executions as counter insurgency measures. Father Roy Bourgeois Gets Peace Award. LINK NO LONGER WORKS. The Pentagon snuck out an admission that the students at the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, once used manuals advocating torture, assassination, and kidnapping as tactics to be used against dissidents in Latin America. While the Army minimized the importance of the manuals, saying they “contained passages that did not represent U.S. Government policy,” others, such as Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.), believed the manuals confirmed that the school’s congressional supporters have blood on their hands. The New York Times editorialized that an “institution so clearly out of tune with American values should be shut down without further delay.” Aaron Galegos and Jim Rice, Manual for Horror, Between the Lines, Sojourners, November-December 1996, Vol. 25, No. 6.
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<p>guess the Pentagon was wrong…</p>
<p>so the name of the school was changed…but it is still there…</p>
<p>the Pentagon admitted they used manuals that advocated torture…but guess that is not enough for some people</p>
<p>No interest in seeing fiction, especially when it was made for an election year and crafted to suit election year purposes.</p>
<p>Yeah, we have such a “liberal” media…right. I guess if people say a catch phrase long enough, people believe it.</p>
<p>You haven’t posted anything from the Pentagon, cgm. You’ve posted agit-prop, as usual.</p>
<p>CNN- got it…you don;t believe CNN’s report…</p>
<p>Are you saying that the Pentagon never admitted that they had mauals that advocated torture, etc…is that what you are telling me…</p>
<p>Yes, that is what I am saying.</p>
<p>LOL! This all just deserves an LOL!</p>
<p>LOL is much easier to type than a link to a factual source.</p>
<p>It always seems to be a “liberal media” when it is reporting what the conservatives don’t want to believe. It so easy to kill the messenger. The news media reports facts.Clear And Simple. If they are guilty of anything it is crumbling under the pressure that the conservatives have thrust upon them to not report the facts. Calling them unpatriotic by questioning actions and policy that need to be questioned. CHECKS AND BALANCES! A term neo cons seem to detest. If they are guilty of anything it is of not asking the right questions at the right time that needed to be asked of this government. They are not liberal. They are doing their job… reporting facts.</p>
<p>It is Fox News Networks job to create their own reality. They should have shown “The Path to 9/11”. That is the way they usually tell a story anyway.</p>
<p>wowweeeee…that is truly amazing…guess even Cheney had it wrong back then…</p>
<p>sideways
or, backwards?
hmmm…</p>
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Keep on guessing.</p>
<p>Driver, A fact can stare you straight in the face, and you won’t believe it, if it doesn’t fit into your carefully crafted world view.</p>
<p>Backwards in Bushworld maybe but not in America.
Keep watching Fox it’s hard to have to think for ourselves.</p>
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I gotta tell ya, I could have used more cowbell. And facts. I’ve got a fever, baby, and the only cure is more cowbell. And facts.</p>
<p>FACT- in 1996 the Penagon was forced to release manuals they had used that advocated and taught torture…to deny this happened…well, whatever you need to do</p>
<p>Hundreds of students of SOA are torturers and murderes of thousands of people</p>
<p>Those students were from dozens of different countries and didn’t have much in common, except they were accepted into the SOA and took their trainging back to their countries</p>
<p>CGM, you gotta give me more cowbell. I put on my pants one leg at a time, just like you, but when my pants are on, I produce gold posts. I gotta have more cowbell, baby.</p>
<p>Chris Walken…“I need more cowbell, Baby!”</p>
<p>Saturday Night…</p>
<p>don’t let the facts bite you in the behind…sorry if they confused your brain</p>
<p>my dingaling is where its at btw</p>