So.. this week we have learned that Dick Cheney et al suspended Habeus Corpus and then ordered the torture of men immediately after 9/11 (before the justice department even signed off on it.) We also learned that when the CIA reported to the White House that captives were "compliant" -cooperative and giving up information, Bush got into a room full of his buddies and thought of a bunch of ways to torture the detainees so that they could try and get them to say that Osama Bin Laden was working with Saddam, and that Iraq had WMD's. They did this successfully and put it into Colin Powell's report at the U.N., a couple of months later we were at war. Then with the help of the CIA the Bush administration got the military to take the gloves off a bit. Then Gitmo.. Abu Ghraib.. Bagram abuses and homicides are now documented.. Some 98 "enemy combatants" are now homicide's, some of them tortured to death. Of course, there was no Al Qaida link, there were no WMD's, and there was never any ticking time bomb scenario.
One of the detainees who was waterboarded repeatedly and said that Saddam was working with Al Qaida (later recanted) apparently committed suicide in a mideast prison last week.
Yesterday the Obama Administration delayed the release of more Abu Ghraib photos, today they leaked out anyway. For those without weak stomachs.
A person who can look at documented systematic waterboarding, bashing of peoples heads into walls, piling naked men on top of each other, leaving naked men in extreme temperatures for weeks, month long sleep deprivation, anal rape with sticks, torturing people while families watch, mock execution, mock burying alive, attacking with dogs, beating, whipping, chaining to the ceiling, breaking of limbs, denial of medical attention and food, among other horrors, and then say that all of this is somehow necessary is in my mind unamerican and and needs to take a moral compass break for a while.
I'll say it, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, George Tenet, John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales and the commanders in the Army that planned, legislated, instructed and ordered torture ought to be investigated by an independent special prosecuter.
One of the detainees who was waterboarded repeatedly and said that Saddam was working with Al Qaida (later recanted) apparently committed suicide in a mideast prison last week.
Yesterday the Obama Administration delayed the release of more Abu Ghraib photos, today they leaked out anyway. For those without weak stomachs.
A person who can look at documented systematic waterboarding, bashing of peoples heads into walls, piling naked men on top of each other, leaving naked men in extreme temperatures for weeks, month long sleep deprivation, anal rape with sticks, torturing people while families watch, mock execution, mock burying alive, attacking with dogs, beating, whipping, chaining to the ceiling, breaking of limbs, denial of medical attention and food, among other horrors, and then say that all of this is somehow necessary is in my mind unamerican and and needs to take a moral compass break for a while.
I'll say it, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, George Tenet, John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales and the commanders in the Army that planned, legislated, instructed and ordered torture ought to be investigated by an independent special prosecuter.
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