Has the U.S. ever apologized for sending terrorist suspects to Syria to be tortured?

[cali]

why no. no it has not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar#U.S._government_response

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/andrea-mitchell/50708018#50708018

http://www.thenation.com/article/172669/fifty-four-nations-are-implicated-cia-torture-scheme#axzz2e8WWR8v6

There are conventions against torture, but that didn't stop the U.S. and we used Assad's regime, among others to do our dirty work.

[HooptieWagon]

1. Its OK if WE commit war crimes...

....its only bad when our enemies do so.

[cali]

2. the denial and hypocrisy here at DU- and it's only from

a few dozen or so- should be called out. It's fucking sickening.

[HooptieWagon]

5. "We support our leader without question"

...said the good Germans.
UGH...what a stench.

[chimpymustgo]

8. The hypocrisy is sickening, and should be called out - if it must be allowed.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

15. "WE"?

It was Bush, Cheney, Woo, et al.

All people who should be held accountable.

[bvar22]

16. Yeah, cause OUR guys would NEVER do something like THAT!

Renditions continue under Obama
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-01/world/36323571_1_obama-administration-interrogation-drone-strikes

[HooptieWagon]

28. And civilian-targeting drones.

Forcing down a head-of-state's plane. Obama has a lot to account for also.

[99th_Monkey]

24. Exactly! This gross-duplicity-in-broad-daylight shit has to stop NOW, in its tracks

or else we're all way more doomed than we ever imagined.

[idwiyo]

3. k&r

[avaistheone1]

4. Another important example of disregard for the rule of law.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

6. My poor Cali...we must only look forward

to whom we want to bomb.

[Hydra]

7. This is what I really don't get about our backdoor vs front house policies

Syria offered to be our ally against Al-Qaeda and help us with Iraq. Publicly we snubbed them and kept them on our PNAC kill list, but behind the scenes they were torturing people for us and were probably getting money/favors for it.

Gotta love our priories and values summed up that way.

[99th_Monkey]

27. And this is just what we KNOW about, imagine if you can

how bad it ultimately gets at it's roots behind the "State Secrets" Curtain.

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. I'm sure the Syrian government thought at the time there were building up point with the U.S. for

being so cooperative in the "war on terror."

[leveymg]

10. That was just "stress positions," and "renditions" for "special methods of questioning."

America doesn't torture. Bush and Obama both said so. Didn't you get the memos?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/13/usa.humanrights

[Autumn]

11. This is what our government does with dictators we have used and spit out.

This is not about the atrocities Assad has committed. We just have no more use for him so it's time for him to go. Great post cali, thanks for posting this.

[sibelian]

12. My GOODNESS. Surely you can't be saying it's even dirtier and more twisted than we already thought?

That would just be too upsetting to think about.

Let's just have a nice long think about being the guy that stands up to the bully in the school playground.

[MisterP]

13. well, now we like AQ again

if we want to know what the next war will be, look for pictures of national leaders Kerry, Rummy, or Obama are shaking hands and dining with

[Coyotl]

14. Has the U.S. ever apologized for selling arms to Iraq while they were gassing their people?

[HooptieWagon]

29. No. We blamed the Iranians at the time.

Fully aware it was our guy Saddam.
Now its just disappeared down the memory hole.

[cali]

17. kick for the hyypocrites.

[tecelote]

18. So, how long ago did we stop selling them arms?

[sabrina 1]

19. And to Egypt and to Libya. No, they have not apologized.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

20. We sent people suspected of being allied with the rebels to Assad & now want to bomb Assad

for being overly harsh.

[azurnoir]

21. interesting that means Assad's government must have files on who the US sent to them

just like Mubarak

why are the 'Rebels'® against Assad again?

[L0oniX]

22. K & R ...I am sick of our fucked up government taking us to fucking war.

[99th_Monkey]

23. "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to device." Walter Scott (1808) nt

[DeSwiss]

25. Go easy with the facts, okay?

It's almost as if you were torturing someone with them.

- And enjoying it......

K&R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. The entire Arab World hates the extremists....

Because the agenda of the extremists is to overthrow every single one of them.

Meanwhile, an actual popular uprising has been claimed to be "the same thing" by these "in the job for life" leaders.

Back during the Cold War all a dictator had to do was claim they were fighting commies and the US would send all the ammo they could shoot. The word of the day now is "Al-Qaeda".

[cali]

30. kick for all those

going on about how we must act against this tyrant.

Just to remind you: We're fine with tyrants when we have a use for them.