I was poking around earlier and crossed this thread from before the war started.. figured I'd bump it up for anyone interested.
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Sometimes some of you get so blinded by your anti-Americanism that you seem to lose your capacity for independent thought.
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What indepedent thought? Their mullahs didn't teach them that in madrassas they went to. Even Mush admits that. A large percentage of nicks who contribute to Religion and WA are incapable of indepedent thought. Anti-US and anti-India venom spews out of their keyboard 24/7.
In the Last few months we have seen the horrific torture that took place in Iraq under the auspices of Bush’s occupation force, Abu Ghraib has revealed the dark side of the Bush adminstration, its draconian interrogation policy of obtaining information through torture/abuse of detainees.
Legalising Torture](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26602-2004Jun8.html) Washington Post (excerpt from 09 June 04)
This week, thanks again to an independent press, we have begun to learn the deeply disturbing truth about the legal opinions that the Pentagon and the Justice Department seek to keep secret. According to copies leaked to several newspapers, they lay out a shocking and immoral set of justifications for torture. In a paper prepared last year under the direction of the Defense Department’s chief counsel, and first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, the president of the United States was declared empowered to disregard U.S. and international law and order the torture of foreign prisoners. Moreover, interrogators following the president’s orders were declared immune from punishment. Torture itself was narrowly redefined, so that techniques that inflict pain and mental suffering could be deemed legal. All this was done as a prelude to the designation of 24 interrogation methods for foreign prisoners – the same techniques, now in use, that President Bush says are humane but refuses to disclose. ..
“The failure to substantially change policy and practice after the scandal of Abu Ghraib leaves the U.S. government completely lacking in credibility when it asserts its opposition to torture,” he added in a statement.
Amnesty: No Change in US Torture Policy](Amnesty: No Change in US Torture Policy - Antiwar.com) Amnesty 28 Oct 04
WASHINGTON - The United States has failed to meaningfully change its policies on the treatment of prisoners, opening the door to repeats of abuses like those at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and making an independent probe into torture by the U.S. military essential, says a leading human rights group. In a 200-page report released Wednesday, London-based Amnesty International (AI) stressed that without such an investigation and the clear, unequivocal rejection of torture and ill-treatment by top U.S. officials, “the conditions remain for further abuses to occur.”
Six months after CBS TV’s 60 Minutes broadcast photos of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, AI welcomed a number of Pentagon-sponsored probes into the torture and other abuse there but warned they alone are not sufficient. “Many questions remain unanswered, responsible individuals are beyond the scope of investigation, policies that facilitate torture remain in place, and prisoners continue to be held in secret detention,” said William Schulz, executive director of the U.S. section of Amnesty (AIUSA). Full Article](Amnesty: No Change in US Torture Policy - Antiwar.com)…