[PAA-Discuss] MY OPINION-Torture is reprehensible-Torture is wrong-Torture does not work

[Bob Carter]

    Greetings to all, 12-20-05
  I am convinced that torture is reprehensible, wrong, and ineffective and if my assessment is correct when we (the U.S.) engage in it, we are grossly immoral and or grossly stupid.
   
  The president lied when he said that we no not torture. How does he explain the degrading, cruel and inhumane treatment of the so called enemy combatants at Guantanamo and the Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghaib, and there is a strong case that this administration has engaged in extraordinary rendition whereby we capture suspected terrorists and enemy combatants any where in the world and send them to countries that overtly practice a more severe form of torture, apparently greater than ours. Romania and Poland are denying any participation as the torturing countries. Stay tuned, this is supposed to be investigated.
   
  TO TORTURE OR NOT TO TORTURE?
   
  Can you believe that this question is even being entertained in Congress? To torture, to murder or to rape. Your just don't do it, PERIOD, no discussion, case closed. The facts are, however, that McCain’s no-torture bill was challenged in Congress and Dick Cheney’s desperate lobbying to give the CIA special privilege to torture are unconscionable acts and prove to the world that the U.S. and this administration are losing the moral high ground. By the way, our "wonderful" Senator John Cornyn voted against McCain’s torture ban bill.
   
  Imagine, if you will, Cheney's, Rumsfeld's, Rove's, Rice's loved ones and the presidents twin daughters in uniform and on the firing line in Iraq subject to capture and torture. You would instantly see a U.S. policy opposed to any and all forms of torture. To protect the twins this policy would have real meaning and not just rhetoric with built in loop-holes desired by Cheney.
   
  Unfortunately this scenario want happen and Bush is demanding total victory and will fight to the last drop of somebody elses blood in a war NOT IN THE DEFENSE OF THIS COUNTRY but an illegal, immoral and an aggressive war of choice by one man and that man is George W. Bush. The blood that is shed comes from Sgt. Martinez, Pvt. Gonzales, Spc. 1st class Gomez, the blue-collar soldier from small-town America and other minorities. Unlike the more privileged, these guys are the ones subject to torture and they are dispensable and it is obvious to me this neo-con administration gives less than a little damn about them. They are muted and helpless pawns manipulated by this president who lavishes them with phony and self-serving praise. Their lives are less valuable than the lives of Jena and Barbara Bush. Where is the outrage?
   
  By International legal and moral standards, Bush would be indicted as a war criminal. Let's stop sugar-coating this thing. Are good and honorable people afraid to tell the ungarnished truth? Wake up America. Don't let this cheer-leader president befool you.
   
  On another subject: After the eavesdropping story broke in the New York Times the president has admitted to secretly monitoring phone calls and e-mails which has been going on for over 3 years. This was illegal without a required court-warrant which Bush ignored. King George who apparently thinks he is above the law vows to continue syping. Republican Senator Specter thinks there should be a hearing on this matter. Stay tuned.
   
  If my phone is bugged and my e-mails are monitored and I am rendered to another country, will I get a choice, Romania, Poland or Egypt? I'll Take Romania. I heard it is a nice place to visit, but I prefer not to stay there. Will you keep those cards and letters coming?
   
  Peace with justice,
  Bob
  SUPPORT OUR TROOPS---IMPEACH BUSH



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