Abuse ‘deliberate, central’ to U.S. strategy, Human Rights Watch claims

[kpete]

Rights group blasts U.S. terror interrogations
Abuse ‘deliberate, central’ to U.S. strategy, Human Rights Watch claims


Updated: 10:00 a.m. ET Jan. 18, 2006
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has a deliberate strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in its annual report on the treatment of prisoners.

The human rights group based its conclusions mostly on statements by senior administration officials in the past year, and said President Bush’s reassurances that the United States does not torture suspects were deceptive and rang hollow.

“In 2005 it became disturbingly clear that the abuse of detainees had become a deliberate, central part of the Bush administration’s strategy of interrogating terrorist suspects,” the report said.

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[fasttense]

1. This is so repulsive, so sick.

To think that the United States of America deliberately, and systematical tortures. It is just so contrary to what we use to stand for. There may have been cases of torture in the US previously to the brush regime, but it was not a deliberately, planned policy endorsed by everyone in the Chain-of-Command. It makes me embarrassed to admit that I spent 20 years in the Military trying to protect our country. These are not the ideals our founding fathers stood by. These are not the ideals I fought to defend. Bush and Cheney are a moral cancer to this country.

[LynnTheDem]

2. But but but SADDAM HUSSEIN did it!

So it's ok for us Good Guy Americans to do it!