For our lurking friends from Turdville...I mean Freeperville

The "Commie pinko nutbags" are even out to getcha...
From www.wsws.org

Washington's hypocrisy over Iraq torture
By Bill Van Auken

Forced to confront the catastophic impact that the photographs of naked and hooded Iraqis being sexually abused and tortured by U.S. troops has had in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, official Washington has feigned horror.

President Bush, speaking to the press in Michigan on Monday, said he was "shocked" by the photographs. "I was stunned by it all," declared Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, adding that actions taken against Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad were "un-American."

Who does he think he's kidding? Thanks to the likes of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and company, torture is as American as apple pie.

For more than-two-and-a-half years, since "everything changed" on September 11, 2001, the U.S. political establishment has fostered a public debate over the ethics of torture. Reams of articles have been published on the topic, and polls have been taken on whether terrorist suspects should be tortured. ABC's Ted Koppel devoted a televised "town hall" meeting to the subject, while Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz conducted a media tour to urge that torture be legally sanctioned, with courts issuing warrants to allow a practice banned by international law.

more...www.wsws.org These guys don't muddy-up the news, folks!

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...there are over 30 similar detention/prisoner of war centers spread around Iraq and Afghanistan, plus what about the place that has the greatest secrecy of all surrounding it, the center where U.S. citizens brought in under the Patriot Act by John Ashcroft in Guantanamo Bay Cuba? No one, not even families, attorneys or inspectors have been given access to those people. This may just well turn out to be the U.S.'s and Bush's own Auschwitz!

they ain't gonna pay attention to this. It would be nice if they would, but it just ain't gonna happen.

though, lh! To have the folks at wsws climbing into their ass has got to piss them off! Of course we, and the Socialists are the liars here while they are on a mission from God!