America's Youth Reject Torture, Bill O'Reilly and Right Wing Ideology

Presidential scholars use there photo op to make a difference.

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: America's Youth Reject Torture, Bill O'Reilly and Right Wing Ideology: "'We brought up some very specific points in the letter about the treatment of detainees, even those designated as enemy combatants,' Mari Oye told John Roberts, 'and we strongly believe that all of these detainees should be treated, according to the principles of the Geneva Convention... I asked him to remove the signing statement attached to the anti-torture bill, which would have allowed presidential power to make exemptions to the ban on torture.'"

War on Iraq: Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal

The truth is - torture does not work. A person in fear and pain will say anything to make it stop, more so if they have no information to give. Any information obtained from torturing actual terrorists that are willing to martyr themselves will probably be lies and will have no intelligence value. Any court cases that are brought before a reasonable judicial process (hence the administrations desire for military tribunals) would have to dismiss the case, even if the person being tried is an actual terrorist.

What does work is police interrogation. No fear or pain but quite psychological. Admissible in court. Accurate.

So we have men and women traumatized on both sides. The American soldiers that come home will have to live with what they have done for the rest of their lives.

What happens now with the detainees in Guantanamo? The will be sent to Afghanistan where their treatment will likely be worse. All it creates is more hate of America.

AlterNet: War on Iraq: Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal

From the article:

"In the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Americans were offered two kinds of analysis. We were given a choice regarding the horrendous abuse of those detained in Abu Ghraib (70 percent to 90 percent of which, according to the Red Cross, were arrested by mistake or had no intelligence value): Was it just a few bad apples -- a crazed night shift of sadists that raped, sodomized, beat and electrocuted prisoners (including women and children) -- or was it systemic, based on orders that came straight from the top?"

High School Scholars Confront Bush on Torture

Next time elect a high school scholar. There knowledge of current event is greater than this president's.

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: High School Scholars Confront Bush on Torture

German prosecutors want CIA agents extradited

"U.S. officials privately describe the Munich prosecutors' call as an annoyance in German-U.S. relations."

An annoyance? Exactly who are these "U.S. officials" and why are they still "U.S. officials" after this statement.

How would our government react if a U.S. citizen were kidnapped and tortured by Germany? We have NO credibility thanks to our incompetent, lieing, two-faced government headed by "King Cheney" and "Bush the Fool". Hey Democrats, do you plan to do anything or just sit around with your thumbs up your butts? With a few exceptions, lets remove ALL incumbents and get representation that DOES SOMETHING RIGHT for a change!!!! Throw the incompetent, lobby kissing, pork grabbing do-nothing bums out.

I admire the Germans and Italians for trying to uphold the law. The quote "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Where are the "good men" in our government.

Reading the news is so frustratingly maddening.

German prosecutors want CIA agents extradited - Yahoo! News

Abu Ghraib: "The President Had to be Aware of This" [VIDEO]

More discusting news about the torture at Abu Ghraib and the administration's actions.

AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Abu Ghraib: "The President Had to be Aware of This" [VIDEO]

Covering up torture

This evil administration and all of it's corporate cronies must be removed from positions of power.

AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Robert Greenwald on CACI's role in Abu Gharib [VIDEO]