BBC News - US suspects ‘face torture overseas’
BBC News - US suspects ‘face torture overseas’
I’m sorry to give you guys this ugly news, but we can’t just turn a blind eye. We’re engaged in a war of ideas here as much as anything and our side has to have the facts to argue with people like Jason (see post down the page)
We’ve all seen the pictures from Abu Ghraib, we’ve all heard about torture at Guantanamo Bay, torture so terrible that the prisoners are trying to commit suicide by going on hunger strikes. Donald Rumsfeld, a man so stupid he thought America could invade Iraq and the people would line the road to Baghdad with flowers instead of IEDs, said these Afghan sheep herders who are so depressed they are trying to kill themselves are just going on a diet. Here it is straight from the war criminal’s mouth.
“Well, I suppose that what they’re trying to do is to capture press attention, obviously, and they’ve succeeded. There are a number of people who go on a diet where they don’t eat for a period and then go off of it at some point. And then they rotate and other people do that.”
Well it seems that the torture isn’t isolated to just those places, it seems the CIA has created a secret network of torture chambers “located in Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Thailand, the Washington Post claims.”
Good people like us see this and recoil in horror, and besides the moral outrage we feel, we know torturing Arabs caught in huge sweeps only fuels hatred and creates more terrorists, in short it makes us less safe here in America.
That’s not the way Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration see it however.
They view America’s reputation as a country that routinesly tortures people, I’m going to emphasize that America has a reputation now as a country that routinely tortures people as a method of interrogation as an asset, a plus They look at it as a way of instilling fear in our “enemies”, as a way of making them take our threats seriously.
You and me know that before we dropped a 500 pound bomb on their house and killed their sister and six other children, our “enemies” loved rock music and blue jeans.
- Will
