“Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.”
A new report from Human Rights Watch shows that the Bush regime tortures detainees on purpose and as a matter of policy.
“In the course of 2005, it became indisputable that U.S. mistreatment
of detainees reflected not a failure of training, discipline or
oversight, but a deliberate policy choice,” the report said. “The problem could not be
reduced to a few bad apples at the bottom of the barrel.”
Scott McClellan, White House spokesman, responded by saying “When
a group like this makes some of these assertions, it diminishes the
effectiveness of that organization. It appears to be based
more on a political agenda than facts.”
The claim of twisting the facts to serve a political agenda is
particularly hypocritical given that this regime twists scientific
studies to deny global warming and routinely lies to justify its
policies. Furthermore, declaring that an organization loses its
effectiveness for telling the truth about torture camps in Iraq and
Eastern Europe illustrates just how this regime treats any dissent.
The Human Rights Watch is right. The pictures prove it. And the
chilling accounts from victims and former perpetrators (like Brig. Gen.
Janis Karpinski, former head of Abu Ghraib prison) tell us that this cannot be allowed to continue.
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!