The Politics of Torture (by Scott C. Smith, Counterbias.com)

The Politics of Torture


May 20 2004
Counterbias.com
Scott C. Smith


When the now-infamous photographs of Iraqi prisoners being sexually humiliated at the hands of U.S. military police were made public, reaction was nearly unanimous: disgust and outrage that the U.S. military were abusing prisoners at the same prison Saddam Hussein used to torture Iraqis. President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and others in the Bush administration quickly condemned the photographs, with Bush promising an investigation. In his May 15 radio address, Bush said, “My administration and our military are determined that such abuses never happen again.”

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see that it never happens again...he didn't want the Geneva Convention to cover anyone in the terrah war.

Nick Berg's death was extremely fortuitous. But it's still apples and apples. 25 people have died in American custody. At least 8 are suspected homicides. The people involved would have walked if not for the pictures of prisoner "abuse." They still may walk. Their superiors who authorized violations of the Geneva Conventions will walk.

As violent, vindictive and unlawful as the conduct of this regime is, I suspect its complicity in Berg's death. Berg would have still been in confinement if not for his father's petition in federal court. This administration will not suffer any court order or appearance to submit to any authority, so they let him go. Now he's dead. His death served a purpose, but who's?

From:

CIA Target: Americans
Officials: U.S. Citizens Working for Al Qaeda Can Be Killed in CIA Actions

By John J. Lumpkin

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/cia_americans021203.html

<Try to keep in mind the big picture of the Bush II administration’s plans for new “justice” system for accused terrorists. If the Bush administration wins all of its court cases and implements all of its expressed policy preferences, anyone accused of terrorism who is not a “state actor,” that is a soldier of another state, would get neither the protections of the criminal justice system, nor the protections afforded POWs under the Geneva Convention. This is the system in place, for example, in Guantanamo and Iraqi prisons. >

<The Bush administration sees it differently. In killing him, the administration defined Derwish as an enemy combatant, the equivalent of a U.S. citizen who fights with the enemy on a battlefield, officials said. Under this legal definition, experts say, his constitutional rights are nullified and he can be killed outright.>

Substitute Berg's name for Derwish. It fits right in with the Asscroft's curious FBI investigation and the administration's sick worldview.

Rush still sees The Clenis everywhere.

Hey, Rush, we're all open minded here, but maybe it's time for you to do a little self-searching about that obsession of yours: is there anything you'd like to tell us all?