I approve of Iraq being free, and I'd like to see it happen. I think it is very open to question whether the end result of the invasion will be to achieve that. I am glad that South Africa is now free - but I think that a foreign invasion to try to achieve that would have been disastrous.
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Teaching torture methods in order to prepare people to resist torture is an excellent way to cover teaching them as a way to prepare torturers, and it has been used in that way, as well as forvthe official reason.

Here is a link to the Observer story ard macha refers to Focus: Iraq prison abuse scandal - and here is a link to the Guardian interview it refers to:

"The sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison was not an invention of maverick guards, but part of a system of ill-treatment and degradation used by special forces soldiers that is now being disseminated among ordinary troops and contractors who do not know what they are doing, according to British military sources.
The techniques devised in the system, called R2I - resistance to interrogation - match the crude exploitation and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad."