I realize that a post like this elicits undesirable thoughts. Pretty photos are so much more pleasant. The concept of torture-as-an-interrogative-tool has been in my head. It makes me sick, to be associated with the people that consider this a viable option. If you now support or previously supported this insane administration, you've basically rubber-stamped the practice of torture. Which is illegal, immoral, and a sad reminder that we are really not evolved. Are you O.K. with that? Can you say Spanish Inquisition? Sure, I knew you could.
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How can anyone read that description and say it isn't torture? Amazing.
It's beyond me how anyone can think this procedure is NOT torture. Olberman's commentary - wow - as always. Torture is a war crime. Too bad the US seems to be beyond international justice....will the world community hold this government accountable? I hope so.
How unbelievably sad it's all become. If you'd told me a decade ago that the government of the United States would be publically justifying and promoting the use of a technique that is so obviously torture (and thereby renege on the multifarious anti-torture agreements and protocols they signed up to in the past), I don't think I'd have believed you.
Don't get me wrong, all of this is horrible and illegal to boot but I'm surprised sometimes at peoples' reactions to the torture issue because the American government was not lily white and pure before the Bush Administration. Just look at all their manuvering in Central America, for just one example. It's just that now, the dots are easier to connect.
I guess all those years of "behind the scenes" work has emboldened them enough to be more open about their black heartedness.
I hope this administration is brought up on war crimes and forced to stand trial before the Hague. They think they are above the law, and in the US, they have gotten away with it. But they must be held accountable, and I believe that there is an international body of people who will do the job that we can not do for ourselves.
this was the straw that really broke the camel's back for me. this is the reason i knew that my country- my home- was irrevocably changed forever. to even have to talk about americans torturing other people- and to debate what constitutes torture at all- is mind numbing to me. i am still grieving the loss of my idealism.
i second what tree said...if you only knew the half of all the shit that has gone down over the years...whew...
my.head.is.spinning.must.lay.down.
~ n
xoxox
It's so draconian. And sick. But no one will ever hold Bush accountable.
I understand that it was already going on before, but I think the difference now is that the government no longer unequivocally condemns the use of torture in all circumstances publically, the way that it used to do. Obviously torture is wrong whether you admit that you do it or not, but to not speak out publically against its use is a sad erosion of any moral 'high ground' that a government may claim to have.
How much you wanna bet Bush or Cheney will be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in a few years
a la Kissinger?
It is the fact that they brazenly admit to it rather than try and keep it an embaressing little secret that most shocks me.
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