From the Nigerien yellowcake and the uranium centrifuge tubes that didn't exist to the torture that did (check out this infuriating new Frontline documentary), the factory for manufacturing the phony case for war was headquartered in the vice president's office.
That "the games and amusements of mankind" only exist to shield me from the torture of simply existing in our late capitalist hellscape.
Bodies, it would seem, exist to be abused, not caressed, and Campbell takes care to incorporate, straight from the novel, a sequence in which Bond is denuded and tortured, with particular attention being paid to his organs of desire.
I'm not sure how Matthews gets from "some" people being "susceptible to torture" to Orwell's Room 101 at the Ministry of Love, which existed to prove that everyone is susceptible to torture, but I'd allow that it's a bit appalling to see this logic being applied as an affirmative defense of torture.
"In Chechnya, the rule of law doesn't seem to exist and torture is rampant," said Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch.
Asked if torture has left the CIA damaged, Carle said: "The CIA exists to go to the limit of what is acceptable.
A tangible, legible edition of the torture report seemed exactly the kind of thing that the press exists to publish, but how to beat out the competition?
Clearly, the interrogation tactics President Bush authorised had historically been defined as torture by international standards, and so, no empirical, peer-reviewed data existed to form the basis of the expert medical opinions offered to the White House.
To "destroy" is to torture.
