Interestingly, it's precisely that SERE training that points up the fact that the Bush administration's torture program was explicitly for the purpose of getting people to say things that weren't true. The SERE program was instituted to train US military personnel to be able to resist the kinds of torture that people like the Chinese and North Vietnamese were using to force US military personnel to say things that weren't true, and use those statements from those US military personnel (obtained though torture) as propaganda.

The Bush administration used in its own torture program, the very same torture techniques that the SERE program was designed to help US military personnel resist. It used those torture techniques for precisely the same reason the Chinese and Vietnamese and other governments that used those techniques used them... to force people to say things that aren't true in order to use them as propaganda tools.