{"id":1651,"date":"2011-06-02T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/02\/a-memo-on-torture-to-john-yoo-vincent-iacopino\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:31:07","slug":"a-memo-on-torture-to-john-yoo-vincent-iacopino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/02\/a-memo-on-torture-to-john-yoo-vincent-iacopino\/","title":{"rendered":"A memo on torture to John Yoo | Vincent Iacopino | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For starters, the US invasion of Iraq was justified, in part, on the basis of the false confession of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who, under pain of torture, confessed to knowledge of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Torture not only aided in the justification of the Iraq war, which resulted in more than 4,000 US casualties, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties, and costs in excess of $1tn; the subsequent occupation served as the primary recruiting tool for al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & LibertiesFor starters, the US invasion of Iraq was justified, in part, on the basis of the false confession of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi who, under pain of torture, confessed to knowledge of weapons of mass destruction … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":342,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/12\/24\/ex-bush-official-us-tortured-prisoners-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":1651,"position":0},"title":"Ex-Bush Official: U.S. Tortured Prisoners to Produce False Intel that Built Case for Iraq War","author":"aslam","date":"December 24, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Since the release of Senate findings earlier this month, the assumption that the CIA\u2019s torture program\u2019s sole motive was post-9\/11 self-defense has gone virtually unchallenged. 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