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Thread #81523   Message #1494136
Posted By: Donuel
27-May-05 - 07:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who's next? - today's political picture
Subject: RE: BS: Who's next? - today's political picture
The CIA program of outsourcing torture is called rendition and the tortured are called rendered when flown to a foreign country and tortured. For over a year the administration claimed that they did not sanction US torture, valuable information has been obtained from foreign tortured detainees.

A little over 2 weeks ago on radio I first heard George W Bush respond to a question about rendition and then witnessed his response on TV:
"they (the terrorists) will be flown to a foreign country with the guarantee of torture". GWB

Facts are facts but the only thing alarming was the straight up confession by the President of US sponsored torture without the flowery embelishment of the Orwellian code words like rendition.

If you want to hear him say it I suggest you search NPR.com
When this policy of rendition has been reported by the Washington Post there has been no outcry.

Outlines of the actual Uzbekistan torture techniques include boiling people to death.
Last week Uzbekistan had their own Tianamon Square type event where hundreds of demonstrators were killed. Although some were still alive they were buried in mass graves in only 3 hours with is a new speed record.

If you want to compare these atrocities with Darfour they may seem minor with regards to sheer numbers. Still if you support Bush you support a torture President. In for a penny, in for a pound... or you might want to draw a line at abject torture. Simply denying what he does and says is not good enough, nor is calling people who point to what is happening; insane, liars, unmanly, unpatriotic and criminal good enough any longer.