US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers

Democracy Now by Matthew Alexander(pseudonym), Amy Goodman | Dec. 3, 2008 (Interview)

“My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our generation, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the mastermind of the campaign of suicide bombings that had helped plunge Iraq into civil war. But instead of celebrating our success, my mind was consumed with the unfinished business of our mission: fixing the deeply flawed, ineffective and un-American way the U.S. military conducts ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 3, 2008

The interview is with an interrogator (gator) with experience in real interrogations in Iraq, who sheds light on important aspects of the morality and efficacy of the various torture techniques. The topic is important to discourse on restoring the moral stature of our country, and countering the false images in TV entertainment/propaganda.

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by Kenneth Sibbett - Dec. 8, 2008

While not reading the interview in the post, i read the interview of Scoot Goodman and while being a veteran myself, he sounded straight up.

Having read many articles on the torture practices of the U,S, Military, I can't believe that all of them can be lies.There should be a commission on the order of the Warren Commission, non-partisan, and let the chips fall where they lay. No one can tell me that a few NCO's got together and put the whole torture policy of the U.S. and then carried out the illegal act

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I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq

Washington Post by Matthew Alexander (pseudonym) | Nov. 28, 2008 (Opinion)

() I'm not some ivory-tower type; I served for 14 years in the U.S. Air Force, began my career as a Special Operations pilot flying helicopters, saw combat in Bosnia and Kosovo, ...

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