Sunday, May 22, 2005

10 Inquiries Into Abuse & 10 Free Passes for Bush

Read Seymour Hersh's article in the Guardian UK. Hersh asks why does the buck stop w/a handful of low- ranking enlisted military members who all claim that they had been instructed by their superior officers to abuse the prisoners, yet no one in the chain of command has been implicated or seriously investigated. That's why the "Saddam in His Undies" story so disgusts me... do pix of Saddam in his undies constitute humiliation, and therefore violates his rights guaranteed by the Geneva Convention? Yes they do... but what about the rights of the detainees and prisoners at places like Bagram? How many of their rights have been violated?... yet no one gives a damn. Hamid Karzai claims he is shocked to learn of abuse at the hands of US troops in Afghanistan... really?... why? Did Karzai think his nation's citizens would be given a free pass on abuse? Read this interview from Democracy Now w/Erik Saar, a former Army sgt who served as an Arabic translator at Guantanomo Bay... chilling.
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