So, I'm pretty mad just now. As you might know, new memos were released with yet another wave of information on in regards to the Bush administration's torture policy. How many more of these things do we need before the American people care? How many more innocent Iraqi and Afghan citizens need to be reported as homicide before someone gets mad about this? It's not unpatriotic to call out soldiers who do these things! Guess what -- if you're there to spread freedom and you end up beating an Iraqi to death, you aren't doing your job! You deserve to be sent to jail, just like the soldier who was just sentenced to death for murdering four Iraqis. Just like those Blackwater soldiers who, for how many fucking years, went completely unchecked, and were able to kill and rape civilians whenever with zero repercussions, should be.
"Oh, but Bridey, they were terrorists!" No. They weren't. They were suspected terrorists. Suspected combatants. Many of them were "non-enemy combatants," or, as the defense department changed it to, "no longer enemy combatants." Yeah, good one. That really makes it all better, you guys. Ya know, no one had to charge these people with anything. Many of them weren't. So who knows what they did, if anything? Oh, and those claims it "wasn't torture?" What about those cases when it lead to death? You know, the beatings that cause blood clots? Stuff like that? Or does death not count as torture?
I have a full blog on torture at musingsfromtheouterfringe.blogspot.com, including a story about one particular detainee who was killed at Bagram Prison. Tell me what you think. What does the United States owe the rest of the world, as well as those people killed, if anything? And what constitutes torture?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment