I will not pretend otherwise - This is Our America [View All]

"We do not torture."

George W. Bush, President of the United States, November 8, 2005

"His comments followed efforts by Vice President Cheney to lobby lawmakers to exempt the CIA from an amendment that would ban torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners. The exemption would cover the secret prisons."

Q&A: Bush and CIA secret prisons


June 7, 2007
Secret CIA prisons confirmed by Polish and Romanian officials

"The council has also established that within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, Nato signed an agreement with the US that allowed civilian jets used by the CIA during its so-called extraordinary rendition programme to move across member states' airspace."


"None of the prisoners had access to the Red Cross and many were subject to what George Bush has called the CIA's "enhanced" interrogation methods. These included water-boarding which leads detainees to believe they are drowning, which critics have condemned as severe torture."

Waterboarding Historically Controversial - In 1947, the U.S. Called It a War Crime



US called to account for 'disappeared' detainees

"President Bush acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons in September last year, but said that they had been emptied and all detainees transferred to the US prison at Guantánamo Bay

If accurate, the report flatly contradicts assurances given by President Bush that the CIA's secret detention programme has been closed down and all the agency's prisoners moved to Guantánamo Bay"

"The report also expresses concern over the fate of Yusuf al-Khalid and Abed al-Khalid, the sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. They were taken into custody, aged nine and seven, in September 2002, during an attempt to capture their father. A former detainee says that he saw them in March the following year, around the time their father was captured, in a secret prison where the guards tormented them with insects."


Report: 39 secretly imprisoned by U.S.


Groups list 39 "disappeared" in U.S. war on terror

"Bush said in September there were no prisoners remaining in custody in U.S. secret facilities at that time. But the report said the transfer of Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi from CIA custody to Guantanamo in April showed the system was still operating."


The Bush administration (and all the rest of the guilty) MUST be held fully accountable for their crimes.

Because this isn't the kind of America I want...