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"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the America he had authorized on Feb. 7, 2002, when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention — the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime — did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. That signature led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870319,00.htmlEven George Washington wrote about torture and he decried it in any situation. We signed the Geneva Convention and George Bush abrogated that agreement arbitrarily for the American people. He should be prosecuted for the war crime of mistreatment of prisoners.And before someone gives me grief because "the other guys did it too!", let me say that what other people do is not the issue. America used to stand for something, we were the good guys, we didn't start preemptive wars and we didn't torture people, but now we're end up looking like any other cheap-ass dictaorship with our ethically retarded leader doing things in our name that should never be done.
"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the America he had authorized on Feb. 7, 2002, when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention — the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime — did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. That signature led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870319,00.html
Even George Washington wrote about torture and he decried it in any situation. We signed the Geneva Convention and George Bush abrogated that agreement arbitrarily for the American people. He should be prosecuted for the war crime of mistreatment of prisoners.
And before someone gives me grief because "the other guys did it too!", let me say that what other people do is not the issue. America used to stand for something, we were the good guys, we didn't start preemptive wars and we didn't torture people, but now we're end up looking like any other cheap-ass dictaorship with our ethically retarded leader doing things in our name that should never be done.
