(Australian) Troops undergo extreme torture training

These methods sound familiar?

trying to kill us.

Bush and Rumsfled are trying to kill U.S. troops? It's about time.

Please further explain: "bastards trying to kill us" ?

the wrong board.

:toast:

Just sayin'.

May your stay be peaceful and productive. I really hate what Mr.bush is doing to your country and am working hard at trying to stop it. Where in Iraq are you from?

:rofl: :thumbsup:

AUSTRALIAN soldiers are being blindfolded, stripped naked and menaced by savage dogs for up to three hours in extreme training exercises to prepare them to resist torture.The intensive regime, approved at the highest level of government, is about to be upgraded in response to the growing threat from enemies who do not respect the rules of the Geneva Conventions.

Defence Minister Robert Hill has confirmed interrogators are authorised to use threats of physical and sexual abuse during simulated interrogation sessions at the Defence Intelligence Training Centre at Canungra, near the Gold Coast.

"When approved by the exercise director, working military dogs that are muzzled and short-leashed may be used during advanced RTI (resistance to interrogation) training, in the presence of RTI trainees (including naked trainees), in order to create realism," Senator Hill said in a written response to a parliamentary question from federal Labor MP Daryl Melham.

The use of guard dogs by US soldiers at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail last year to intimidate Iraqi prisoners provoked worldwide outrage and led to prosecutions of American personnel.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16320916%255E601,00.html

(I wish it was sarcasm)

:shrug:

Are they using American advisors? :eyes:

This way they get to train soldiers how to torture, as a "side benefit" of training the others how to withstand torture.

Rather like developing biological weapons in order to find vaccines, "in case one is attacked".

Hmmmm. So what nation has arbitrarily reinterpreted the Conventions or contemptuously dismissed them as "quaint?"

Sounds like the Aussies are preparing for war with those guys.

as the Australian government is about the only government that 100 per cent agrees with the US regimes tactics at Guantanamo Bay.

It's bullshit and MUST STOP.

Nothing like a little rationalization to get the self righteous juices flowing...

Why bother with honor and integrity when you can torture people!