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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 08:24 PM
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Not that Irvine but equally important......
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?page=article&id=4365

For much of his Army career David Irvine preached a kinder, gentler interrogation style: Legal under international military law, effective against the most stubborn enemy, and - above all - moral.


Satisfied that his instruction to would-be interrogators was consistent with Army-wide tactics, the retired brigadier general was crushed, last year, when he learned his nation's flag had flown over prisons where U.S. troops abused suspected enemy fighters.


And the horror of it all, the Salt Lake City resident says, is that none of it ever needed to happen.


"What has gone on over the past few years is completely off the book," he said.

That book, the Army Field Manual for Intelligence Interrogations, directs soldiers to use its principles and techniques within the constraints of the Hague and Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice - noting repeatedly that "the use of force, mental torture, threats, insults, or exposure to unpleasant and inhumane treatment of any kind is prohibited by law and is neither authorized nor condoned by the U.S. Government."

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