UPDATE: Mark Kirk's having a townhall on Saturday. He's trying to load up the agenda with minutia as usual, but you might want to come and ask him about his role in illegal torture and his use of false information to justify both torture and his congressional seat. Matt Murphy is going to be there too, so you'll get the full impact of the Dynamic Duo of Lies and Pain.
10th District Town Hall Meeting
2 p.m.
Saturday, April 25
Palatine Township Center
721 S. Quentin Road
Palatine, IL
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As the country finally has the torture debate, we cannot forget that Mark Kirk was in the thick of it. Here he justifies the torture itself and the destruction of evidence of torture. Kirk said after 9/11 torture was necessary to wrap up al-Qaeda cells that attacked the United States.
Kirk supported his mentor Donald Rumsfeld during this time, claiming Rumsfeld was doing a "masterful job". Rumsfeld was one of the torture architects. Kirk also used his vote to promote continuation of torture. While you consider this, you cannot forget that Mark Kirk also told us that he was in the know on matters such as these and furthre told us that his insider knowledge was a primary reason we should reelect him.
While Kirk worked to convince his district that torture was necessary to elicit information necessary in order to save us all from destruction, we now know that torture was used to elicit confessions, true or false, didn't matter, desired by the Bush administration to support its Iraq War. The Bush administration had a PR problem when no WMD were found in Iraq. They had sold the Iraq War to the American people threatening mushroom clouds, but no WMD turned up. They needed something for a new commercial. So, they tortured detainees hoping to break one of them into confessing to some relationship between 9/11 and Iraq.
So, all the talk about getting good information to protect Americans was false. The Bush administration didn't care if they got good information from the detainees. In fact, they knew the torture techniques they used were designed to produce false confessions because they used techniques that were used by the Chinese in North Korea during the Korean War. These techniques were designed to elicit false confessions from American soldiers to further Chinese and Korean war propaganda.
In the aftermath of the Korean war, these things were called "atrocities". Now, they're just called campaign strategy.
Now, Mark Kirk wants Illinois to make him it's senator or governor. He's deciding. When you make your decision whether or not to grant him the privilege of representing our state, remember his role in turning the United States into a nation that tortures.
