The human rights violations - at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere - sanctioned (if not directly ordered) by this administration will be a stain on this nation for years to come. Worse still, our soldiers were by design stripped of their humanity so that they could in turn dehumanize the victims of the Bush-Cheney policy of torture.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/…
Thu Feb 28, 7:10 PM
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world and for the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in every 100 American adults is confined in a prison or jail, according to a report released on Thursday.
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This article appeared in the Guardian on Friday February 29 2008 on p4 of the UK news section. It was last updated at 00:48 on February 29 2008.
A former SAS soldier was served with a high court order yesterday preventing him from making fresh disclosures about how hundreds of Iraqis and Afghans captured by British and American special forces were rendered to prisons where they faced torture.
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By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate
Posted on February 28, 2008, Printed on February 29, 2008
On the Sunday following Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney told the truth. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said regarding plans to pursue the perpetrators of that attack: “We have to work the dark side, if you will. We’re going to spend time in the shadows.” The grim, deadly consequences of his promise have, in the intervening six years, become the shame of our nation and have outraged millions around the world. President George Bush and Cheney, many argue, have overseen a massive global campaign of kidnapping, illegal detentions, harsh interrogations, torture and kangaroo courts where the accused face the death penalty, confronted by secret evidence obtained by torture, without legal representation.
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ANNE GEARAN and ROBERT BURNS
AP News
Feb 28, 2008 17:44 EST
The U.S. Navy is sending three ships to the eastern Mediterranean Sea in a show of strength during a period of tensions with Syria and political uncertainty in Lebanon.
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