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 Bush: Torture Ban Not Valid at GitmoPosted on Mar 3, 2006Washington Post: Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison. In federal court yesterday and in legal filings, Justice Department lawyers contended that a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, cannot use legislation drafted by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to challenge treatment that the detainee’s lawyers described as “systematic torture.” Truthdig says: Of course, we should have seen this coming when Bush, upon signing the law, gave both Congress and America the finger. Advertisement Previous item: Bush Knew More Than He Let On About Iraq Next item: O'Reilly Threatens Caller re Olbermann New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By Ginger, April 20, 2006 at 9:45 am Link to this comment
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We read a lot about the war in Iraq but little is mentioned about the residual effects of the Depleted Uranium of which thousands of pounds have been dumped. The effects of this WEAPON of MASS DISTRUCTION have serious and untreatable complications and will render all exposed dead in a few years. These are also victims of this war. Count them as dead when you tally up the numbers. However, it isn’t just Iraq that has been affected. DU particles are small and are carried on the wind into surrounding countries. Countries as far away as Australia have discovered DU particles in their country. How many will have to die a horrible death before we, as a united front, do something about this evil, insane, idiotic, morally deplete, so called president is stopped, charged with war crimes and imprisoned in the very gulag where torture is permissable? We “voted” him in, we can “vote ” him out. He IS NOT all powerful. He is merely suffering from delusions of grandure and needs to be permanantly put away.
Report thisIt’s time to TRIM THE SHRUB!!!
By R. A. Earl, March 3, 2006 at 9:19 am Link to this comment
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You American folks had better do something to rein in your maverick President before he really dumps you in the glue.
Somehow you’ve got to get the position of President back to “Executive Director” status where he follows the orders of the “Directors” (the PEOPLE through Congress & the Senate).
The only companies I know where the guy at the top gets away with doing whatever he/she wishes are those companies he/she OWNS, lock, stock and barrel. And even then there are the customers and unions to put on the brakes when necessary.
NO man or woman is smart enough to be right all the time. And when POTUS is wrong, it’s YOU who pay, not him/her. Very scary way to run a railroad!
Report thisBy G. P. Vaughan, March 3, 2006 at 8:22 am Link to this comment
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But if another country was torturing detainees, in a similar situation, the US would be all over that screaming about human rights violations! “We’re Number One” NOBODY tells us what we can or can’t do!
Report thisBy Marty Beaudet, March 3, 2006 at 8:10 am Link to this comment
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Ever since our unilateral invasion of Iraq I have been ashamed to call myself American. Everyday we prove ourselves to be no better than the tyrants and corrupt regimes we have always fought against. Now we even have a Soviet gulag system, inlcuding—most hypocritacally—in the very prisons built by the Soviets in Eastern Europe, right under the noses of the people we boasted of liberating from such an abusive system. Invasion, torture, lying, secrecy, locking up of political prisoners, spying on citizens, graft, corruption—how is America any different from her enemies?
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