Why torture when there are drugs like this?

[Nikia]

I had my colonoscopy on Friday (they didn't find anything that wasn't normal). They gave me pain killers and a drug that made me cooperative but unable to remember anything that happened. When I was coming to rememberable consciousness, I was evidently telling the nurse about smoking pot because she said that although health care providers should know that, I shouldn't tell everyone. Before that, I supposedly had a conservation with the doctor as well. When I got home, I just wanted to sleep more. It makes me wonder about governments torturing POWs and spies. Why not just give the person with valuable information drugged like this? I don't know how a person could be trained not to give out valuable information when under the influence of drugs like this. I think that I would have said anything and not remembered any of this. This would be more humane. I suppose that it is against the Geneva Convention but that doesn't stop torture so why should it stop this method.

[arwalden]

1. In Other News: Colonoscopy Technicians Being Sent To Camp X-Ray...

... nobody knows why and Rumsfeld will not elaborate.

[MercutioATC]

2. Isn't Versed a wonderful thing??

(the drug that makes you cooperative and forgetful)

:crazy:

[Nikia]

6. Yes

But scary. I must trust those people an awful lot.

[pw]

3. Because torturing people is more fun

for the kind of people who do that sort of work.

Both "truth" drugs and torture suffer from unreliability -- people will tell the questioner what they think the questioner want to hear, with accuracy only coincidental.

I expect the method is used, but not talked about so much, because it doesn't strike fear into the hearts of the opposition the way that stories of torture do.

[short bus president]

4. I've been present for a few

colonoscopies where some pretty interesting details were revealed under the influence of the demerol/versed cocktail. The hand-shooing "no honey, not tonight" is my all-time favorite.

[KG]

5. SNOOOOOOOOORRF!!!!

(cleans fine spray of diet dr. pepper from CRT) :)