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voisjoe1
Dec 24, 2012voisjoe1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
“Taxi to the Dark Side” supplements info found in the books “The Black Banners,” “Ghost Plane,” and “The Dark Side,” all books that describe the descent of America from a country that derides torture to a country that applauds torture. The tape indicates that a recent poll indicates that 35% of Americans now believe that torture is OK. Now some people have authoritarian personalities, so some people are naturally going to believe in torture. And some people come from totalitarian societies, so they naturally believe that torture is just a part of man’s nature. But 35%??? This is a sad state that our country has been brought to by Cheney, Rumsfield and subordinates like John Woo. The film reiterates that the torture techniques so famous as filmed in Abu Ghraib, migrated from Bagram and GITMO like a deadly virus. It was not some new phenomenon devised by privates and other low level soldiers, but a secret plan by Cheney and Rumsfeld to help get testimony (albeit, false) that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 so that they could convince Americans that we needed to invade Iraq. Sad to say, that several men were killed by Americans in these prisons, and many, many have committed suicide rather than live like animals for years for nothing that they have ever been done. For some, their only crime is to be able to spill the beans the crimes that the prisons are committing in the name of Americans.