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AMERICA THE TORTURER
Contributed by
steeleyes
on
Wednesday, 22nd December 2004 @ 09:12:37 AM in AEST
Topic:
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FBI memos confirm Guantanamo prisoner abuse
A series of just released FBI memos confirm what's been alleged for months now – that prisoners being held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay have been subject to abuse and even torture.
The memos gathered over a period of two years detail techniques, which included prisoners being chained to the floor and left without food and water. Given the opportunity to respond today the White House made no effort to deny the abuse.
Memos between FBI officials detailing abuses, some dated after the Abu Ghraib jail scandal, were released as part of a legal case against the government.
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Strangulation, beatings and the placing of lit cigarettes into detainees' ears, an executive order signed by President George W Bush authorising techniques such as 'sleep management', stress positions, use of military dogs and sensory deprivation, detainees shackled to the floor in foetal positions for more than 24 hours at a time, left without food and water and allowed to defecate on themselves, military interrogators impersonated FBI agents, apparently to avoid possible blame in subsequent inquiries, the rape of a juvenile male detainee...
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America is supposed to be better?
You’re supposed to be a Christian nation?
This doesn’t look better
Just Red, White & Blue degredation
What kind of creeps work for America?
And how high does this go?
Oh yes we know about “bad apples”
But that’s just so much snow
Rumsfeld has his deniability
Bush and Cheney give a little wink
And the creepy torturers go on
Without the slightest blink
America, the torturing state
Is that what you want to be
Turning a blind eye to torture
In the land of the “free”
This is the kind of behaviour
I thought you were against
Are you really Nazis?
What is your defence?
That no one knew?
It was a few bad apples nothing more?
Strange, because there are documents
That show you’re rotten TO THE CORE
Deniability is important
But the grunts don’t want all the blame
They got you to sign
Read now with shame
Emails and executive docs
Wolfowitz and Bush
The trail of slime leads up above
Is it for the door you rush?
You thought you had it covered
No torture link, no blame
Well think again Mr Bush
You’re firmly in the frame
America is supposed to be better?
You’re supposed to be a Christian nation?
This doesn’t look any better
Just Red, White and Blue degredation
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steeleyes
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Re: AMERICA THE TORTURER
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by shelby on
Wednesday, 22nd December 2004 @ 10:26:00 AM AEST
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| I wont say my friend AMerica is better but for the most part we are good people. The few military that were over there doing these things is not our entire military in general. I have people ver there who would not do such a thing. Yesterday we lost many more of our troops and many others were hurt so I now mourn for them and their families and dont think of the rest at this time. Im hoping to not recieve a phonecall......... there are several of our friends and family member we are unsure of |
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Re: AMERICA THE TORTURER
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by QueenEEliz33 on
Thursday, 20th January 2005 @ 10:32:17 PM AEST
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| I know im supposed to be a poet but i cant even put into words how mad all that makes me, you really did a good job exposing the truth |
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