Posted on 04/10/2009 5:36:47 AM PDT by steve-b
It's no longer possible to mince words, or pretend we didn't know. The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's so-called "enhanced" interrogation methods, used on "high-value" terrorism suspects, plainly constituted torture. The time for euphemisms is over, and the time for accountability has arrived.
The Red Cross report -- published this week in its entirety for the first time by the New York Review of Books -- is a stunning account of how the Bush administration spat on our laws, traditions and ideals. I realize that many Americans, given the scope of the economic crisis and the ambitions of the new administration, would rather look forward than revisit the past. The business of torture, however, is too unspeakable to be left unresolved....
From George W. Bush on down, individuals decided to sanction, commit and tolerate the practice of torture. They took pains to paper this vile enterprise with rationalizations and justifications, but they knew it was wrong. So do we.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Screw Robinson and screw the Red Cross. You jerkoffs can surrender, we shouldn’t have to.
Yup, this calumny requires punishment.
Show us the wounds. McCain can do that. Can these guys? Panty marks on the head are not wounds.
And yet again, the Red Cross shows me why I should continue not to donate to them.
During World War II, the Red Cross charged my Dad for doughnuts. The Salvation Army gave them for free. The Salvation Army gets my money, the local blood bank gets my blood. The Red Cross gets nothing.
“...spat on our laws, traditions and ideals.”
Hypocrisy on parade. They don’t give a rat’s patootie about our “laws, traditions and ideals” when it comes to homosexuality, individual liberty, constraining out of control government, defending the nation, legislating from the bench and preventing the marxist take-over of our nation.
urban myth
Sounds like a review of a best seller to be written in a few years.
Seriously though, I care little for my enemies. Let the Red Cross and the missionaries tend to the feelings and souls, the military should kill the enemy and break their things
Well Eugene, in your paddy cake world it may be torture, but discomfort is NOT torture. Waterboarding and standing still do NOT cause permanent physical harm!
Is there a particular reason that you believe the testimony of this handful of terrorists about the beatings?
After America has been dealt a devistating blow how would YOU treat the people responsible who may be planning additional attacks?
What would YOU do to protect America and her citizens under those circumstances?
I did simplify a bit, see
http://www.snopes.com/medical/emergent/redcross.asp
but I did not make up my father’s resentment that extended at least 20 years after the War.
LMAO!
This is why I read the Washington Times, not the buffoons in the Compost.
and so... the drumbeat for the witch hunt grows louder. So let’s now start the investigations and prosecution of those people tasked with keeping us safe. Let’s just surrender now.
Where were they when Saddam Hussein was murdering his own people?
Have they said anything about what Kim Jong Il does to the North Korean people?
What have they said about the Castro brothers and how they deal with Cubans who disagree with that government?
What about Hugo Chavez?
If it was up to me, I would ban the ICRC from coming anywhere near any US government operation. They have no need to be there anyway, as they already prematurely "concluded" that we do evil things.
Yawn. If Mr Robinson thinks that terrorists will be deterred from their murders by humane treatment (approved by ICRC and Amnesty International) he is fooling himself. And, if they aren’t deterred, we are complicit in their future murders. I submit that our high ideals should be seen in results not merely process. Those who live by the sword must die by it .
Are there any elected Republicans willing to say “I don’t care much for the human rights of those who murder civilians.”? There is a great future for those leaders who dare to defend what most Americans know instictively.
Mr. Robinson needs to denounce the Bush administration’s grossly illegal wiretapping program and seek to punish all involved in the most egregious breach of the Constitution in our nation’s history!
Umm, 0bama is continuing and defending this program?
Oh well, then. Never mind.
You sure about that top picture? It looks more like a fraternity hazing ritual than “torture.”
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