I screened over 350 prisoners in a 36 hour period back in ’91. Two of them lunged across the table at me before the MPs could “control” them.

I had them face down and pinned before my guards even reacted. Don’t start with your shit talking about what I know and don’t know.

As for escorting prisoners, I led them to and from our holding area all the time, and walked among them also. As for my language background, I’m certainly not trying to come off as more “intelligent”, as you claim. I do know that the majority of troops in the field are ignorant of the language and customs of the area to which they are deployed, and the people they are dealing with.

It causes more problems than it’s worth, and any claim you make to the contrary is total BS. The biggest problem with detainees after they’re captured is the tendency to handle them as if you are still fighting them in the field, a war by other means, if you will. I’m all for necessary precautions when dealing with them, but most times, the war goes on within the detention centers. It causes problems, and if there is any intel to be gleaned from any of them, the opportunity to extract that info becomes tougher when the people who “handle” them start fucking with them.

I had to set a couple of the younger MPs straight with this back when I was in, and supposedly they were the ones who were trained to handle prisoners. They could have fooled me.

It’s pretty clear that you’re on some sort of medication, and that you’re currently off it.

OK, you’re a badass. We get it.

Don’t lecture me on the ins and outs of interrogation. Were you an interrogator? Are you responsible for handling prisoners, or carryin out their interrogations? Can you do it in their language, and are you well versed in their ways?

If not, then you’re just blowing smoke.

Beyond that, exactly what sort of treatment do you believe prisoners should be subjected to? I’m not talking about “coercive interrogation techniques”, I’m just talking about day to day treatment once in custody?

As far as comparing today’s prisoners to the ones I dealt with in Iraq back in 1991, a better comparison would be the fanatical jihadist prisoner circa 2009 with the fanatical Japanese prisoner circa 1943-44.

Read up a little bit on two of the most experienced and successful interrogators in WWII, one a German in the European theater, and the other an American Marine officer in the Pacific theater.

Truly professional, and successful, interrogators recognize their methods and techniques right away, and study them like piano students study Mozart. There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but usually there is one way that works the best.

Here’s a couple of links, pay special attention to the ones concerning Sherwood Moran, the Marine Major who headed up the interrogation efforts of some very fanatical Japanese prisoners who fell into our hands. Fanaticism is fanaticism, whether it be religious or political or social. What works on one fanatic works on them all.

The fact is, when somebody fucks with a prisoner, it instantly makes the interrogators job that much harder, especially if the interrogator isn’t aware about what occured.

Here are some links about Moran:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200506/budiansky

http://home.comcast.net/~drmoran/home.htm

http://desertbeacon.blogspot.com/2006/09/sherwood-moran-and-presidents-very.html

Here are some links to Hans Joicham Scharff, the famed Luftwaffe interrogator. Scharff and Moran used the same basic precepts, and it all came down to how the prisoner was treated.

Scharff’s is a fascinating story, and he eventually emigrated to the US after the war. With the endorsement of the American fliers he interrogated, no less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff

http://www.amazon.com/Interrogator-Joachim-Luftwaffe-Schiffer-Military/dp/0764302612

Yes, I used pepper sray to stop him., Only I still stood between the girl and him and I warned him to stop at least twice. As he did not, I sprayed him.

So tell me CHILD, all about how I fall apart. Just more proof you are clueless!

That said, I have been in MANY “tight” situations as a bouncer, paratrooper, deep sea diver and a person who gets involved breaking up fights as well as fighting criminals. And as a lifeguard, I saved more than a few lives.

I have come close do dying MANY times both quickly and (twice) slowly in a hospital. NOT ONCE, have I “fallen apart” at all. Rather I have handled the problem.

I never claimed to have any facts I do not have. THE FACTS ARE a TERRORIST leader who would KILL YOU, and ALL YOUR LOVED ONES, got a Bloody lip. B.F.D.!