Rice's Lies About Torture-By Dave Lindorff

Rice says that even if things were kind of harsh back in 2001 and 2002,
today“the ground is different.” She says soothingly,
"We now have in place a law that was not there in 2002 and 2003."

Rice's Lies About Torture
Submitted by dlindorff on Fri, 2008-05-23 14:48.
By Dave Lindorff

Is anyone surprised that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the Bush/Cheney administration’s authorization of torture of captives has been consistently legal and in compliance with all treaties the US has signed, including the Geneva Conventions?

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Well of course she’d say that. But in fact, let’s look at those “fine legal points.”The Third Geneva Convention Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War defines prohibited torture as follows:



It’s kind of hard to see how that rather thorough definition of torture—which as a treaty signatory is the definition by which the US is supposed to live—can accommodate the waterboarding, sexual humiliation, months in solitary confinement, faked executions, days in stress positions, etc. which were approved by Rice and her fellow inquisitors and the nation’s commander in chief.

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The truth is that the Bush/Cheney administration, with the clear knowledge and authority of the president and vice president and of Rice herself, went on to torture captives in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Guantanamo Bay, and in countless “black sites” around the globe, well into 2006 at least, and continues to torture captives now. Those tortured have even included children.

more at:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/33602

What about Geneva? Oops.

I guess its all PR with these freaks.

It has been one constant stream of LIES from day one....Why are any of them even quoted at all anymore? They have ZERO credibility throughout the world....