Broken Laws, Broken Lives, Torture American style

[forestal]

Wake up before it's too late, before we become like China and USSR.

Vote for change next time around.

Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US

After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.
—Maj. General Antonio M. Taguba (USA-Ret.), preface to Broken Laws, Broken Lives
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Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.), who led the Army’s 2004 investigation into the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. (From the foreword of Broken Laws, Broken Lives).
It is impossible to escape a mixture of sadness and fury while reading the 149 horrific pages of the just-released report published by Physicians for Human Rights and called Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US. Sadness for the victims. Fury for the fact that American citizens have paid for the ghastly criminal acts of guards and interrogators at U.S.-run prisons in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and Afghanistan. Sadness that Americans are now seen as torturers worldwide. Fury that high officials who ordered these acts are not digging holes and filling them up every day on some penal atoll.


About

• Broken Laws, Broken Lives shows the human consequences of harsh and unlawful US interrogation practices. This landmark report reveals the excruciating pain and continued suffering of men who, never charged with any crime, endured torture at US detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. Based on internationally accepted standards for clinical assessment of torture claims, the report documents practices used to bring about long-lasting pain, terror, humiliation, and shame for months on end.

• Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.

 

[Xaquin44]

Politicians acting in an unjust manner!


Not in America!!




(note: this is a jab at all politicians, not just the ones in the above article)

 

[Toxick]

Wake up before it's too late, before we become like China and USSR.

Funny - that's exactly what the GOP says.

 

[forestal]

Yes well, there hasn't been any American conducted torture, or hiding prisoners from the Red Cross under Democratic Presidents, so I guess you can see which party has more credibility.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.
"We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques," Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who's since retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture.

...

Regarding the ICRC, the United States long has complained that other countries such as China or the old Soviet Union prevented independent access to prisoners or made their conditions look better when outsiders were inspecting. The Bush administration appears to have engaged in similar practices, however.
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Funny - that's exactly what the GOP says.

 

[Toxick]

Yes well, there hasn't been any American conducted torture, or hiding prisoners from the Red Cross under Democratic Presidents, so I guess you can see which party has more credibility.

Pffft. Maybe, but I don't think you'd like my answer.



Having said that, in my book, both parties are simply two different masks applied to the same steaming pile of feces. However, I do find that one party is a lot thicker with their self-righteousness, self-indulgence, arrogance, smugness, and hypocrisy. And completely blind to all of the above.



And that carries a lot more weight with me than waterboarding terrorists.

 

[This_person]

Wake up before it's too late, before we become like China and USSR.

Vote for change next time around.

Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US

After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.
—Maj. General Antonio M. Taguba (USA-Ret.), preface to Broken Laws, Broken Lives
​

Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.), who led the Army’s 2004 investigation into the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. (From the foreword of Broken Laws, Broken Lives).
It is impossible to escape a mixture of sadness and fury while reading the 149 horrific pages of the just-released report published by Physicians for Human Rights and called Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US. Sadness for the victims. Fury for the fact that American citizens have paid for the ghastly criminal acts of guards and interrogators at U.S.-run prisons in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and Afghanistan. Sadness that Americans are now seen as torturers worldwide. Fury that high officials who ordered these acts are not digging holes and filling them up every day on some penal atoll.


About

• Broken Laws, Broken Lives shows the human consequences of harsh and unlawful US interrogation practices. This landmark report reveals the excruciating pain and continued suffering of men who, never charged with any crime, endured torture at US detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. Based on internationally accepted standards for clinical assessment of torture claims, the report documents practices used to bring about long-lasting pain, terror, humiliation, and shame for months on end.

• Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.

This makes a decent point - vote out all of those Congresspersons who have been voting FOR continued action as is in Iraq with members of the opposing party!!!


Great for the GOP

 

[RadioPatrol]

The Bush administration appears to have engaged in similar practices, however.

All right f'ing terrorists / IslamoFascists should disappear down a dark hole, never to be see or heard from again ...

when not killed out right attacking US Forces abroad in undeclared wars, with no borders by killers wearing no militarizes uniform ...


better that they disappear and everyone wonders where Abdul went, than announcing to the whole stinking world, who we have and where we got him ...

 

[Dork]

Wake up before it's too late, before we become like China and USSR.

Vote for change next time around.

Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US

After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.
—Maj. General Antonio M. Taguba (USA-Ret.), preface to Broken Laws, Broken Lives
​

Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.), who led the Army’s 2004 investigation into the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. (From the foreword of Broken Laws, Broken Lives).
It is impossible to escape a mixture of sadness and fury while reading the 149 horrific pages of the just-released report published by Physicians for Human Rights and called Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US. Sadness for the victims. Fury for the fact that American citizens have paid for the ghastly criminal acts of guards and interrogators at U.S.-run prisons in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and Afghanistan. Sadness that Americans are now seen as torturers worldwide. Fury that high officials who ordered these acts are not digging holes and filling them up every day on some penal atoll.


About

• Broken Laws, Broken Lives shows the human consequences of harsh and unlawful US interrogation practices. This landmark report reveals the excruciating pain and continued suffering of men who, never charged with any crime, endured torture at US detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. Based on internationally accepted standards for clinical assessment of torture claims, the report documents practices used to bring about long-lasting pain, terror, humiliation, and shame for months on end.

• Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.

Oh, it's you again.

 

[itsbob]

Wake up before it's too late, before we become like China and USSR.

Vote for change next time around.

Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US

After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.
—Maj. General Antonio M. Taguba (USA-Ret.), preface to Broken Laws, Broken Lives
​

Maj. General Antonio Taguba (Ret.), who led the Army’s 2004 investigation into the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. (From the foreword of Broken Laws, Broken Lives).
It is impossible to escape a mixture of sadness and fury while reading the 149 horrific pages of the just-released report published by Physicians for Human Rights and called Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US. Sadness for the victims. Fury for the fact that American citizens have paid for the ghastly criminal acts of guards and interrogators at U.S.-run prisons in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and Afghanistan. Sadness that Americans are now seen as torturers worldwide. Fury that high officials who ordered these acts are not digging holes and filling them up every day on some penal atoll.


About

• Broken Laws, Broken Lives shows the human consequences of harsh and unlawful US interrogation practices. This landmark report reveals the excruciating pain and continued suffering of men who, never charged with any crime, endured torture at US detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. Based on internationally accepted standards for clinical assessment of torture claims, the report documents practices used to bring about long-lasting pain, terror, humiliation, and shame for months on end.

• Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.

Since only one candidate has worn the uniform, been held prisoner and suffered from long term abuse and torture you'd be suggesting voting for McCain then correct?

I mean, who'd by more sympathetic than him?

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

I'm glad Forestool wasn't part of any of my teams. I woulda waterboarded him thinking he was the enemy.

 

[Baja28]

Wow stool is back. He and anhoyingboy disappeared for awhile. I also saw a post by anhoying boy recently. Coincidence??

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

Wow stool is back. He and anhoyingboy disappeared for awhile. I also saw a post by anhoying boy recently. Coincidence??

I have anhoyingboytoy on iggy so I haven't seen him in a loooong time. You reminded me he was an annoying bug someone had to swat daily.

 

[Vince]

I'm glad Forestool wasn't part of any of my teams. I woulda waterboarded him thinking he was the enemy.

With forestidiot, you really wouldn't need a reason.

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

With forestidiot, you really wouldn't need a reason.

Agreed, but we never had time for such nonsense. It was get in, get the job done and get out. Always best if they never knew you were there.