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Comment by Larry Ross, December 9, 2005

Throughout Mark Follman's excellent paper on US torture practices, he quotes CIA and military experts who say torture does not produce useful results. So why do Bush and his Administration do it and why is it so widespread? Why do people like Condelezza Rice prance around Europe, claiming "the U.S. does not torture" when there are mountains of evidence that they do, both directly and by using client states to do it.

I fear it is part of the Neocon-Bush plan to degrade, demoralise, terrorise and immunise humanity and elevate the most bestial side of human nature. It is part of their attack on international law, the Geneva conventions, the laws and understandings we all have about treatment of other human beings and all the highest aspirations of mankind.

Once again this article proves that the majority of Western Civilisation is now governed by thugs, criminals and sociopaths who are capable of any crime. This article lifts the lid on only one aspect of their crimes. They are very deeply involved in a giant criminal enterprise the like of which has never before been visited on humanity.

For the first time in history criminal leaders have nuclear arsenals to impose their will and have said they are prepared to use them. The US, UK, Israel and other 'Coalition of the Willing' nations are waging illegal, unjustified wars and have threatened opponents with nuclear weapons to achieve their objectives. It is a giant conspiracy that threatens to destroy all humanity.

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America can't take it anymore

The Bush administration has embraced torture as a key part of the "war on terror." Finally, members of Congress, the military and the CIA are speaking out against the abuse.

By Mark Follman

Dec. 5, 2005 | Five days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the nation that the U.S. government would begin working "the dark side" to defeat its enemies in a new global war. "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion," Cheney declared on NBC's "Meet the Press." He added, "It's going to be vital for us....     ICH

America can't take it anymore

The Bush administration has embraced torture as a key part of the "war on terror."
Finally, members of Congress, the military and the CIA are speaking out against the abuse.

By Mark Follman, Salon, December 5, 2005

Five days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the nation that the U.S. government would begin working "the dark side" to defeat its enemies in a new global war. "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion," Cheney declared on NBC's "Meet the Press." He added, "It's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal."

More than four years later, the Bush administration has delivered on Cheney's vow to wage war in the shadows, free from oversight and accountability. Policies for seizing and interrogating suspects -- conceived and commanded at the highest levels of the White House -- have permitted numerous acts of torture and even murder at the hands of American soldiers and interrogators.

The grim acts unleashed by those policies are no secret today. Cruel and wanton abuses have been exposed at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, and other lesser known U.S. military bases and prisons around the world. In November, the Washington Post uncovered a global network of covert CIA prisons known as "black sites," top-secret interrogation facilities reportedly operating in far-flung locations from Eastern Europe to Thailand. Still, many dark details remain unknown.

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