The B\*sh Junta is a bunch of war criminals, and the United States is a rogue state

The B*sh Junta is a bunch of war criminals, and the United States is a rogue state

Host countries have signed the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as has the United States. Yet CIA interrogators in the overseas sites are permitted to use the CIA's approved "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques," some of which are prohibited by the U.N. convention and by U.S. military law. They include tactics such as "waterboarding," in which a prisoner is made to believe he or she is drowning.

--Washington Post front page story, 2-nov-2005

"Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" are, in case you don't have a copy of the official Evil Party newspeak dictionary, torture. And who are the United States government torturing? Random taxi drivers, Taliban flunkies, and Afghani citizens who were kidnapped and handed over to the CIA by the Taliban in return for US reward money? Well, sure, but that's not all.

Parliaments in Canada, Italy, France, Sweden and the Netherlands have opened inquiries into alleged CIA operations that secretly captured their citizens or legal residents and transferred them to the agency's prisons.

I will point out here that the United States is not at war with Canada, Italy, France, Sweden, or the Netherlands. I don't know why France hasn't uncapped their missile silos and demanded the immediate return of their citizens, but then again I'm not a politician and don't have to worry about the subtle nuances of dealing with a superpower controlled by insane whackjobs.

But, be that as it may, it's interesting to discover just who in the United States government signed off on these deathcamps. Congress? Well, no, of course not.

The black-site program was approved by a small circle of White House and Justice Department lawyers and officials, according to several former and current U.S. government and intelligence officials.

And who knew about the operations in the camps? Congress? The answer is still no.

The existence and locations of the facilities -- referred to as "black sites" in classified White House, CIA, Justice Department and congressional documents -- are known to only a handful of officials in the United States and, usually, only to the president and a few top intelligence officers in each host country.

The United States government, thanks to the Evil Party, is rotten to the core. War crimes? You're soaking in them.

—orc Wed Nov 2 10:35:43 2005

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War criminals? We are indeed "soaking in them." And one is going on trial tomorrow! That is a bit of progress, at least.

Ralph Dratman Wed Nov 2 22:43:55 2005

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