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sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
10. Excellent post. I remember well the specious arguments from Bush and his cabal of
Mon Dec 22, 2014, 01:35 AM
Dec 2014

war criminals regarding 'enemy combatants' not falling under the Geneva Conventions. They created a whole 'other' classification of human beings, using WORDS to dehumanize people they were rounding up to torture.

We should keep using the word torture, no matter how they try to avoid using it.

What they did was horrific, and I don't believe this report was good enough to do anything more than pretend we 'investigated it'.

There should graphic descriptions in the report of the rapes and the sodomy of children in front of their mothers eg.

The public doesn't view beating up a few 'terrorists' as torture.

But I remember the reports from ten years ago, of the women and children who were on video tapes. What happened to those videos? They went through the court system with the Bush gang fighting to keep them from the public.

But some members of Congress were allowed to view them and were horrified, even someone like Lindsey Graham eg, stated to Cheney when he was screaming about Congress even talking about torture at the time, 'Please let us do our job Mr. VP. We are talking about Rape and Murder and Torture here'! But then, nothing.

The whole thing is monstrous and sickening. Even more so that the American people by a majority support torture.

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