"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcolm X
British troops were accused at the High Court yesterday of using interrogation techniques on Iraqi civilian detainees that breached human rights laws.
Six Iraqis were asking the court to order an independent public inquiry into allegations that soldiers may have killed up to 20 captives held after a gun battle in southern Iraq in 2004.
They are putting medical evidence before the court which they say supports their contentions that captives were tortured, murdered and their bodies mutilated.
See how casual that is? Soldiers may have killed 20 detainees 20 PEOPLE, oh well, accidents happen I guess. NO. Accidents do not happen and NO it's not OK because 'it saves lives' - it doesn't. Rather, in this case it ended about 20 of them ^. Some people just don't get it - the 'detainees' are mostly goat herders sold as terrorists so that those who captured them get the bounty for an arrest.
US President Barack Obama is wading through the legal, political and moral morass created by the Bush administration's approval of interrogation techniques, which he - and many others - consider to be torture.
It has turned out to be a tricky path to navigate.
By publishing the legal advice that his predecessor used to justify the techniques, yet making it clear that he does not intend to press charges against those involved in the decision-making or the interrogations, he has left himself open to criticism from the right and the left.
Some of the strongest comments have come from his own supporters, who believe that the president can not simply wipe the slate clean; that his call for "reflection, not retribution", amounts to a whitewash.
There are plenty of voices calling for a full investigation, with charges being pressed against anyone found to have committed acts of torture in the name of the United States.
That is some complex propaganda right there:
- Obama is not ending torture, nor does he want to. Gitmo is just a showhome compared to the CIA's secret prisons around the world.
- The article suggests Obama is going up against the establishment in DC. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was their choice so they could stay in power and keep theor two-party dictatorship!
- Torture is ineffective even with real terrorists (they'll confess to anything), but since Al-Qaeda is a CIA creation, it's unlikely that any real Al-Qaeda (eg Osama, whose family are best buddies with the Bush family) will have been through Guantanamo. Even Khaled Sheik Mohammed, (laughably) the 'mastermind' of 9/11. He made NORAD stand down from his cave...he trained the hijackers in US military bases (oops delete that last part, surely it didn't happen?).
- And finally, in case you haven't figured it out yet, They Own Both Parties.
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