AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL press release

http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=b04794edfe431d1885256e8d0051a241

snip - Amnesty International said that it has documented a pattern of abuse by US agents against detainees, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, stretching back over the past two years.

Despite claims this week by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to be "stunned" by abuses in Abu Ghraib, and that these were an "exception" and "not a pattern or practice", Amnesty International has presented consistent allegations of brutality and cruelty by US agents against detainees at the highest levels of the US Government, including the White House, the Department of Defense, and the State Department for the past two years.

snip - Despite repeated requests, Amnesty International has been denied access to all US detention facilities.

"If the administration has nothing to hide, it should immediately end incommunicado detention and grant access to independent human rights monitors, including Amnesty International and the United Nations, to all detention facilities," said Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

"The US administration has shown a consistent disregard for the Geneva Conventions and basic principles of law, human rights and decency. This has created a climate in which US soldiers feel they can dehumanize and degrade prisoners with impunity.

"What we now see in Iraq is the logical consequence of the relentless pursuit of the 'war on terror' regardless of the costs to human rights and the rules of war."

1. Utter contempt for humans and treaties.u
2. Implied or specific permission to torment, if not torture.
3. Use of outside contractors and the nefarious Military Intel.
4. Use of Israeli experience.
5. Cover-up.
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6. Bait and switch - 9-11 vs Iraq. Regime change vs oil takeover.
7. A very supportive partisan Senate and Congress.
8. Stupid, empty words and cya manuevers. Scapegoating.

until you refuse to correct it. Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive."

/eom

George W. Bush in a statement on 26 June 2003, marking the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, said that "the United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example".

That's what happens when W "thinks"....Dimwit read the statement from the teleprompter and forgot those two words...instead he's been busy leading this fight for worldwide torture by example...

Maybe someone should put a dog collar around his neck -(oh yeah, Cheney already does that!) and put wires on their genitals (but then again - they don't have any! That's why they are trying to emasculate Muslim men!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

...a toast to you too...It feels good to wake up!

he open all these facilities to Amnesty International and the Red Cross immediately. No more secrets. Oh yes and demand that he, Cheney and his cabinet resign. Congress can then appoint competent leadership until the election in November.