PC phrase of the year

[Ravi]

Maybe the century.

EIT.

Mind boggling.

Yeah, I said something about that out loud last night in my kitchen. "You know the government has gone batshit crazy when they invent an acronym for torture."

That is what they do. One of the most amusing, at least to me, was when we used the acronym BITE for built in test equipment, they came up with NIBBLE, normalized interrogation of black box line equipment.

Yes, when I was active duty, every part of our normal day to day conversation was laced with acronyms and command specific vernacular. Outsiders could not understand a thing we said.

That is actually my point. When our government has normalized torture to the point of making up an acronym for it, we have become exceedingly morally bankrupt.

It's not an acronym so much as an attempt on their part to pretend torture was acceptable.

 

[edthecynic]

Maybe the century.

EIT.

Mind boggling.

I have to disagree, the best PC phrase came from the CIA's Jose Rodriguez who called starvation torture "dietary manipulation."

 

[Nutz]

Maybe the century.

EIT.

Mind boggling.

Yeah, I said something about that out loud last night in my kitchen. "You know the government has gone batshit crazy when they invent an acronym for torture."

That is what they do. One of the most amusing, at least to me, was when we used the acronym BITE for built in test equipment, they came up with NIBBLE, normalized interrogation of black box line equipment.

Yes, when I was active duty, every part of our normal day to day conversation was laced with acronyms and command specific vernacular. Outsiders could not understand a thing we said.

That is actually my point. When our government has normalized torture to the point of making up an acronym for it, we have become exceedingly morally bankrupt.

It's not an acronym so much as an attempt on their part to pretend torture was acceptable.

On whose part?

 

[g5000]

I am so glad all the Nazi wannabes are going on record in all these topics as saying waterboarding and slapping and walling are not torture.

 

[Nutz]

What is the acronym for feeding the killer muslims up the ass?

 

[Ravi]

I thought EIT was dubbed under the Bush administration.

I've never heard the particular phrase uttered before. Sure they said enhanced interrogation to excuse their asses. But never saying EITs.

 

[g5000]

What is the acronym for feeding the killer muslims up the ass?

"Rectal feeding".

I think that's the phrase Ravi was seeking earlier.

 

[Siete]

I thought EIT was dubbed under the Bush administration.

The phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" was, but the first time "EIT" was used in a wide public format, as far as I can recall, was yesterday during a press conference by John Brennan.

Are you sure about that. I thought I remembered Rumsfeld using the term to lessen the idea of torture when all of this first came out.

I could phrase that better...because EIT is not torture and I am proud that our heroes did what was necessary to protect the American people!

from what, a mushroom colud or an invasion of Saddam's army who had nothing to do with 911 .. Terrorists don't have timeframes, They could hit again in 10 years, any information Dick came up with doesn't protect squat.

 

[g5000]

One prisoner was made to stand for such a long period that he required medical attention. Then they got some Doctor Mengele type to pump the prisoner full of blood thinners so they could force him to stand even longer.

Nawwwww...that's not torture! Uh uh! Nope. No, sir.

 

[Ravi]

I am so glad all the Nazi wannabes are going on record in all these topics as saying waterboarding and slapping and walling are not torture.

It won't matter in the long run, sadly. We torture and most Americans will accept it with a PC name.

 

[Nutz]

I thought EIT was dubbed under the Bush administration.

The phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" was, but the first time "EIT" was used in a wide public format, as far as I can recall, was yesterday during a press conference by John Brennan.

Are you sure about that. I thought I remembered Rumsfeld using the term to lessen the idea of torture when all of this first came out.

I could phrase that better...because EIT is not torture and I am proud that our heroes did what was necessary to protect the American people!

from what, a mushroom colud or an invasion of Saddam's army who had nothing to do with 911 .. Terrorists don't have timeframes, They could hit again in 10 years, any information Dick came up with doesn't protect squat.

It is called a deterrent. When was the last major attack on US soil? We fuck with the terrorists and they kill euromites. Win-win situation.

 

[Listening]

I thought EIT was a feel good movie about an alien and Reeces Pieces.

 

[Ravi]

What is the acronym for feeding the killer muslims up the ass?

"Rectal feeding".

I think that's the phrase Ravi was seeking earlier.

Close but that doesn't quite match with what I was thinking.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Maybe the century.

EIT.

Mind boggling.

you only have yourselves to blame.

You mentally differently capable came up with stuff

 

[g5000]

It is called a deterrent. When was the last major attack on US soil? We fuck with the terrorists and they kill euromites. Win-win situation.

We stopped torturing years ago. And no major attack on US soil...still.

Please explain how torture stops major attacks. You seem to be laboring under the incredible assumption that torture is the only means by which to gain information.

 

[Ravi]

Maybe the century.

EIT.

Mind boggling.

you only have yourselves to blame.

You mentally differently capable came up with stuff

Thanks for stopping by, short bus.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Maybe the century.

EIT.

Mind boggling.

you only have yourselves to blame.

You mentally differently capable came up with stuff

Thanks for stopping by, short bus.

yer welcome

anytime you need the blame put where it belongs, just @ me

 

[g5000]

You mentally differently capable came up with stuff

What was that sentence before you ran it through Google's English-to-Retard-back to-English translator?

 

[edthecynic]

I thought EIT was dubbed under the Bush administration.

The phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" was, but the first time "EIT" was used in a wide public format, as far as I can recall, was yesterday during a press conference by John Brennan.

Actually it goes back to the Nazis.

Versch rfte Vernehmung - The Atlantic

The phrase "Verschärfte Vernehmung" is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court. The methods, as you can see above, are indistinguishable from those described as "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the president. As you can see from the Gestapo memo, moreover, the Nazis were adamant that their "enhanced interrogation techniques" would be carefully restricted and controlled, monitored by an elite professional staff, of the kind recommended by Charles Krauthammer, and strictly reserved for certain categories of prisoner. At least, that was the original plan.

Also: the use of hypothermia, authorized by Bush and Rumsfeld, was initially forbidden. 'Waterboarding" was forbidden too, unlike that authorized by Bush. As time went on, historians have found that all the bureaucratic restrictions were eventually broken or abridged. Once you start torturing, it has a life of its own. The "cold bath" technique - the same as that used by Bush against al-Qahtani in Guantanamo - was, according to professor Darius Rejali of Reed College,

pioneered by a member of the French Gestapo by the pseudonym Masuy about 1943. The Belgian resistance referred to it as the Paris method, and the Gestapo authorized its extension from France to at least two places late in the war, Norway and Czechoslovakia. That is where people report experiencing it.

In Norway, we actually have a 1948 court case that weighs whether "enhanced interrogation" using the methods approved by president Bush amounted to torture. The proceedings are fascinating, with specific reference to the hypothermia used in Gitmo, and throughout interrogation centers across the field of conflict. The Nazi defense of the techniques is almost verbatim that of the Bush administration...

 

[Siete]

I thought EIT was dubbed under the Bush administration.

The phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" was, but the first time "EIT" was used in a wide public format, as far as I can recall, was yesterday during a press conference by John Brennan.

Are you sure about that. I thought I remembered Rumsfeld using the term to lessen the idea of torture when all of this first came out.

I could phrase that better...because EIT is not torture and I am proud that our heroes did what was necessary to protect the American people!

from what, a mushroom colud or an invasion of Saddam's army who had nothing to do with 911 .. Terrorists don't have timeframes, They could hit again in 10 years, any information Dick came up with doesn't protect squat.

It is called a deterrent. When was the last major attack on US soil? We fuck with the terrorists and they kill euromites. Win-win situation.

a deterrent ... for how long ?

torture isn't a deterrent,, sorry.