American Way Of Torture
President George Bush disagrees. "This government does not torture people," he insisted , after reports emerged that in 2005, the U.S. Justice Department had secretly endorsed such painful interrogation techniques. Claiming that highly trained individuals from the CIA conducted the interrogation of terrorism suspects in keeping with U.S. and international law, Bush offered that it was all done for the sake of protecting the American people.
It is time for those same American people to pay attention to what is being done in their name.
Never mind the unjustified wars launched in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Those wars were "over there" and many Americans started to pay real attention only when the numbers of American casualties started to get uncomfortably close to the numbers slaughtered during the 9/11 attacks.
And attacks on civil liberties? Their victims were mostly the brown and the Muslim. They were the ones detained and deported on the......
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