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Information derived from torture methods tends to be less reliable than from other coercive methods. If you are skinning someone alive, they will tell you anything to get you to stop.
The issue for the US in Iraq, is as Spaz said, the war in the middle east is one for "hearts and minds". What the war effort there has effectively failed at is claiming any kind of moral high ground needed to have a lasting positive effect.
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