Succumbing to the Dark Side
by Paul Craig Roberts
Torture is a violation of U.S. and international law. Yet, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, on the basis of legally incompetent memos prepared by Justice Department officials, gave the OK to interrogators to violate U.S. and international law.
The new Obama administration shows no inclination to uphold the rule of law by prosecuting those who abused their offices and broke the law.
Cheney claims, absurdly, that torture was necessary in order to save Ameri ...
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Posted by: michael nola
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Fri May 29, 2009 9:31 PM
How long would it take to safely clear out any major American city so as to be outside the harm caused by a nuc lear explosion? Any terrorist caught and tortured would hold out for as long as possible and then give faulty information as to the place and time the device would be exploded. Torture doesn't work, unless your aim is to elicit false confessions, as Communist China and Korea did to our servicemen during the Korean war. Isn't it ironic that supporters of Bush/Cheney like to call all those who oppose our needless wars Communists, while we both rely on Communist China to loan us money for these very wars, have sent countless jobs to China and Vietnam and we used the same methods of torture Communists have used ? Just keep going to Wal Mart, you right wing patriots, the Commies love your business.
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Posted by: Luis Magno
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Mon Jun 1, 2009 3:19 PM
The dark side of Manifest Destiny was in full bloom by 1846 but the Anglo-Saxon seeds of slavery, racism and torture go back to 1619.
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Posted by: david scott
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Sun May 31, 2009 2:20 PM
Although, I personally am so far to the left, that even the even the democrats appear to me to be "right-wing," I consider myself to be a strict constitutionalist. It is my opinion that since its inception there has been an organized and systematic assault by the conservatives in the United States on the civil liberties written into the US Constitution. The “War on Drugs”; “War on Terror”; “War on Communism” and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People--an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence. I invite you to my website devoted to raising awareness on this puritan attack on freedom: http://freethegods.blogspot.com/
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