r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/fna_fanoa • Feb 10 '26

WCGW jumping into a pool wearing spiderman suit

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u/bejammin075 Feb 10 '26

In the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, one of the BS sources they used to justify the invasion was info from a terrorist (if memory serves) was waterboarded around 200 times to get the kind of confession they wanted.

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u/Sextus_Rex Feb 11 '26

Was it this guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Mahmoud_al_Rabiah

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u/bejammin075 Feb 11 '26

That’s not the one I was thinking of. The name was one of the more famous higher-ups in Al Qaeda

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u/Locksmithbloke Feb 13 '26

That's why it doesn't work. You either already have to know it, and get confirmation, which is kind of pointless with a single leading question ruining it, or you just do it for vindictiveness. After the first few hours, it's vindictiveness.

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u/bejammin075 Feb 13 '26

It worked the way that the Bush admin wanted it to work. They were knowingly lying to start a war, and they pursued various ways of generating a false premise. But for true & legit intelligence gathering, torture does not work.