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amy31416
03-27-2011, 07:39 AM
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/25/james/index.html


http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/25/james/md_horiz.jpg
Hey, he looks harmless enough, right?


One of the most intense scandals the field of psychology has faced over the last decade is the involvement of several of its members in enabling Bush's worldwide torture regime. Numerous health professionals worked for the U.S. government to help understand how best to mentally degrade and break down detainees. At the center of that controversy was -- and is -- Dr. Larry James. James, a retired Army colonel, was the Chief Psychologist at Guantanamo in 2003, at the height of the abuses at that camp, and then served in the same position at Abu Ghraib during 2004.

Today, Dr. James circulated an excited email announcing, "with great pride," that he has now been selected to serve on the "White House Task Force entitled Enhancing the Psychological Well-Being of The Military Family." In his new position, he will be meeting at the White House with Michelle Obama and other White House officials on Tuesday.

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Writing in 2009, Law Professor Bill Quigley and Deborah Popowski, a Fellow at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, described James' role in this particularly notorious incident:

In 2003, Louisiana psychologist and retired Col. Larry James watched behind a one-way mirror in a US prison camp while an interrogator and three prison guards wrestled a screaming, near-naked man on the floor.

The prisoner had been forced into pink women's panties, lipstick and a wig; the men then pinned the prisoner to the floor in an effort "to outfit him with the matching pink nightgown." As he recounts in his memoir, "Fixing Hell," Dr. James initially chose not to respond. He "opened [his] thermos, poured a cup of coffee, and watched the episode play out, hoping it would take a better turn and not wanting to interfere without good reason ..."

Although he claims to eventually find "good reason" to intervene, the Army colonel never reported the incident or even so much as reprimanded men who had engaged in activities that constituted war crimes.

(Just excerpts, more at link, including WH response)

Is there any doubt that Obama's just as torture-happy as the last administration? These are the people that he "rewards."

acptulsa
03-27-2011, 07:44 AM
Why are the name Hippocrates and the English word hypocrite so similar?

So, I hope he has something more positive in mind for the 'health of the military family' than cross-dressing.

acptulsa
03-27-2011, 10:10 AM
A few years ago, someone created a face that was half Obama's face and half Dubya's goofy mug. I don't have the first idea what search terms to use to find it. Anyone have that bookmarked?

CountryboyRonPaul
03-27-2011, 10:33 AM
A few years ago, someone created a face that was half Obama's face and half Dubya's goofy mug. I don't have the first idea what search terms to use to find it. Anyone have that bookmarked?

http://www.thetruthorthefight.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bush-obama.jpg

jmdrake
03-27-2011, 10:42 AM
Why am I not surprised? :( But I would be surprised if the average Obamabot cared. And of course the average neocon will be elated.

acptulsa
03-27-2011, 10:43 AM
CBRP, you're a good ol' boy. I don't care what Amy said about you...

amy31416
03-27-2011, 11:13 AM
Why am I not surprised? :( But I would be surprised if the average Obamabot cared. And of course the average neocon will be elated.

Yeah...I'm not surprised either. Part of the reason I make these non-shocking threads is in the hopes that some of the liberals who'd like to mock us (and who read these forums) will actually see what their guy is up to, because it's not being reported in their hemisphere. (Unless Fox News makes a big deal about it, which they won't, for obvious reasons.)

And yeah, I also know they probably don't care. I guess it wouldn't be the first time I've done something pointless. :p

CountryboyRonPaul
03-27-2011, 11:13 AM
CBRP, you're a good ol' boy. I don't care what Amy said about you...

LOL, wouldn't change if I could :collins:

amy31416
03-27-2011, 11:18 AM
LOL, wouldn't change if I could :collins:

I said that you're a fine, upstanding citizen...my apologies!

CountryboyRonPaul
03-27-2011, 11:46 AM
I said that you're a fine, upstanding citizen...my apologies!

It's ok, anyone could make that mistake. ;)

acptulsa
03-27-2011, 11:48 AM
Amy, you are truly a Southern girl at heart. And that news item you found needs to be used to choke some more liberals. They said we lied about Obama during the campaign. Well, I don't feel like my honesty, or my powers of prognostication, have suffered one bit since then.

Agorism
03-27-2011, 11:51 AM
Why are the name Hippocrates and the English work hypocrite so similar?


He's a psychologist not a psychiatrist.

acptulsa
03-27-2011, 11:55 AM
He's a psychologist not a psychiatrist.

Ah, good point. No M.D., no Hippocrates.

Still a hypocrite, though.

doodle
03-27-2011, 02:45 PM
Would anyone be surprised if Collin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Lieberman and Dennis Ross joined Obama war team?

Get ready for surprises ahead.

acptulsa
03-27-2011, 04:16 PM
I can't wait for Karl Rove to get hired as Obama's spinmaster.

BlackTerrel
03-27-2011, 04:36 PM
http://www.thetruthorthefight.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bush-obama.jpg

Wow. That is incredibly creepy.

HOLLYWOOD
03-27-2011, 05:12 PM
Would anyone be surprised if Collin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Lieberman and Dennis Ross joined Obama war team?

Get ready for surprises ahead. Dennis Ross and Paul Wolfowitz back into control... With these CFR Globalists National Security Council Manchurian Implants, it will never end with the Totalitarianism, Wars, Fascism, etc... Wolfowitz just magically became World Bank head. Talk about writing a conspiracy novel on this guy.

Who the Hell is running the US government? Look at this below but it's the same ones that approved all the invading, torture, and killing... USUAL SUSPECTS


During President (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President) Jimmy Carter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter)'s administration, Dennis Ross worked under Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz) in the Pentagon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon). There, Ross co-authored a study recommending greater U.S. intervention in "the Persian Gulf Region because of our need for Persian Gulf oil and because events in the Persian Gulf affect the Arab-Israeli conflict.
During the Reagan administration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration), Ross served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs in the National Security Council (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council) and Deputy Director of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Net_Assessment) (1982–84).
Ross was a noted supporter of the Iraq war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq) and he signed two Project for a New American Century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_a_New_American_Century) (PNAC) letters in support of the war in March 2003. He also opposed Bush's policy of avoiding direct talks with Iran. *****
According to Wall Street Journal, Dennis Ross, along with James Steinberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Steinberg) and Daniel Kurtzer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kurtzer), were among the principal authors of presidential candidate Barack Obama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)’s address on the Middle East to AIPAC in June 2008. It was viewed as the Democratic nominee’s most expansive on international affairs. AIPAC founder Ross is currently on the US National Security Council (NSC) as Special Assistant to the POTUS and is Senior Director for the Central Region.
George F. Will and Paul Wolfowitz, the former deputy Secretary of Defense/World Bank Crone, sparred on whether U.S. forces should intervene in Libya.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262576/libya-will-vs-wolfowitz-robert-costa

The Case for Backing Libya's Rebels
By Paul Wolfowitz (http://www.aei.org/scholar/126)
Friday, March 11, 2011
http://www.aei.org/article/103302

Paul Wolfowitz on America's Interventions in the Muslim World
4:31 PM, Mar 21, 2011
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/paul-wolfowitz-americas-wars-muslim-liberation_554905.html

Wolfowitz Accused on Cronyism and Illegal Hiring at World Bank
http://www.truth-out.org/article/wolfowitz-accused-cronyism-and-illegal-hiring-world-bank

Dennis Ross

Aratus
03-28-2011, 09:33 AM
"darkness at noon" was a coldwar novel