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U.S. Torture and False Imprisonment Is A Policy

Comment by Larry Ross, September 21, 2006

One can assume that the Bush regime is aware that his Iraqi Command says that 18,770 Iraqis have been released since June 2004. US officers told the International Red Cross that 70 to 90 percent of the Iraqi detentions were "mistakes.

Also, it is well established that torture does not produce reliable information. So in addition to moral, ethical and legal considerations, there is no practical advantage in torturing one's victims. Also Bush's torture policies makes enemies and turns the U.S. into an international pariah.

So what's the point of his torture policies.?

I think the point is that false imprisonment of innocent people with no charge, representation or trial is an integral part of the overall plans of the Neo Conservative Bush Administration.

1. All of Bush's military actions against other states, based on lies, creates enemies out of friends. When they resist Bush's totally illegal invasion, bombings and occupation, his false imprisonments, murder, torture and rape, Bush then calls them "terrorists".  His lies justifying this action are constantly repeated and delivered with great showmanship and apparent sincerity. Tony Blair has demonstrated a great flair for being very convincing, while telling the most blatant lies. For example, when he told the British Public that Saddam's missiles could attack the UK in 45 minutes, he knew he was lying, but people believed him and the UK media mainly supported his lies.
   With Bush, the U.S. Senate mainly act as if they believe him and then say "yes they are terrorists" They deserve what you are doing to them.
2. So Bush is making real enemies, that may commit real acts of violence against US citizens as retaliation. Every act of retaliation is portrayed as evidence of terrorism. Once the process is established, and widened to other states and peoples as Bush is now doing, a momentum is developed. The war becomes real and who would dare justify what our proven enemies are doing to us.
3. The 9/11 attack was a huge boost for the Bush Presidency, in terms of power, influence and popularity ratings. The " Pearl Harbour " the neocons said they needed to galvanize the American people was the 9/11 attack. Although there is argument over who actually engineered 9/11, there is no argument that the Bush neocons immediately harnessed this crime to justify their pre-planned war on Iraq and Bush's many lies and his wars on terror.
4. Torture, rendition, secret prisons etc all helps Bush create more real enemies and provide him with the evidence he needs to keep fooling the gullible.
5. However as disillusionment and falling popularity polls increase in the U.S.,Bush may contrive more alleged "terrorist attacks" to terrify and galvanize the American people to support his next war on Iran.
6. With torture becoming a routine accepted fact by many(not all) Americans, the social fabric will be corrupted - much like German society under Hitler and Nazi rule. America is being converted by Bush into a de facto dictatorship - a fascist society. Torture helps accelerate that process.

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Bush's Cruel and Degrading Presidency

By Mike Whitney, ICH,  September 19, 2006

Washington is a moral swamp. When the chief executive can stand at the presidential podium and make an unabashed appeal for torture, then the American dream is dead.

Bush hates America and only God knows why? He's been buoyed-along his entire life on a raft of wealth and privilege; distancing himself from his endless failures, one after the other…flop, flop, flop. Still, Bush wants more; another pound of flesh to inflate his battered, alcohol-saturated ego. He wants to snuff out anything that even vaguely resembles honor or decency or dignity so he can permeate the world with his own fiendish image beaming from TVs across the globe.

Who could ever have imagined the President of the United States making the case for torture like some flannel-mouth medicine man at a tent show?

“Where is your sense of decency, sir?”

The shame that Bush has brought on this country is nearly as great as the ignominy heaped on the nation by the Republican rubber-stamp congress. The House of Representatives is the real moral swamp. Not once, in 6 years have they stood up to Bush…not once!!! Meanwhile the country has trundled off to war on a “pack of lies”, the president has authorized unlimited spying on the American people, 300,000 mostly poor, black people were ethnically cleansed in New Orleans , and countless thousands of innocent Muslims have been kept in bondage in American gulags.

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