Letter received from The White House today on Torture

[hiley]

(no scanner, so I will type it for you)

The White House
Washington
May 24, 2005

Dear Mrs. Conner:

On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your letter. We appreciate hearing your views.

President Bush has repeatedly affirmed our country's commitment to the worldwide elimination of torture. He believes that human dignity must be protected and that freedom from torture is an inalienable human right.

To assist victims of torture, the United States supports torture accountability and treatment centers, contributes to the United Nations Fund for the Victims of Torture, and supports nongovernmental organizations that work to end torture and help victims recover. Our country also provides protection, counseling, and where necessary and possible, relocation to the United States. President Bush urges all nations to join these efforts to end torture and assist torture victims.

The President has repeatedly affirmed that he does not condone torture in any circumstances, and he has also directed our military personnel to treat all detainees in their custody humanely. American personnel are also required to comply with all applicable United States laws, including the Constitution, Federal statutes, and our treaty obligations.

President Bush has strongly condemned the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as inconsistent with American values and policies. Investigations are underway to review and improve detention operations in Iraq and elsewhere, and to hold accountable those who have violated U.S. law.

The United States will continue to aggressively pursue intelligence from terrorists who are seeking to harm Americans, but will not compromise the rule of law or the values and principles that make our country strong.

Thank you again for writing to the President about this important issue.

Sincerely,
Marguerite A. Murer
Acting Director of
Presidential Correspondence

Shut Guantánamo Down
Tell DICTATOR Bush to just shut it down.


The Guantánamo Bay prisoner of war camp is a disgrace to all Americans. In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Cross referred to Guantánamo as the "gulag of our times." Even New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is now calling on President Bush to tear down the prison.

As Friedman wrote, "Guantánamo Bay is becoming the anti-Statue of Liberty." When it's clear both at home and abroad that the U.S. is responsible for the torture and abuse of prisoners -- including those who have been detained for years without being charged with any crime -- our standing in the world community is irreparably harmed and anti-American passions around the world are inflamed.

The longer Gitmo stands, the more likely it is that innocent Americans citizens will be killed in terrorist attacks. Its very

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http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition.cfm?itemid=19123
or use the tinyurl
http://tinyurl.com/bxjm4

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. They are really freaking out about Gitmo

There must be something major about to come out? Like Bush on tape laughing about torturing prisioners?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I notice the letter doesn't mention rendition.

It's perfectly all right to turn people over to other countries who will do our "wet work." So Bush can say our hands are clean; WE don't do things like that (we just let others do it for us).

[hiley]

3. No it does not however I did and also depleted uranium use and

affect.
As long as the Dictator & PNAC are in power I will post this over &again

Edited on Fri May-27-05 07:22 PM by hiley
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1912

"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed … were not, as some assumed,inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Rudolf Hoess,
the SS commandant at Auschwitz.

One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and
torture rooms and rape rooms."—Bush, press availability in Monterrey,
Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004

Edit to fix link:
New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/pop/?040510onslpo_prison


http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/torture.htm
14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism
http://www.ericblumrich.com/14.html

Depleted Uranium Weapons use has to be stopped immediately, the use of these weapons is a War Crime.

Look at the pictures on this link I provide and know this is happening to American children as well, just not in such great numbers as those of Iraqi children.

These mid-wives are purported to have said they no longer look forward to births as.... "We don't know what's going to come out."

http://www.web-light.nl/VISIE/extremedeformities.html

"You Must be the Change you Wish to see in the world"

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

[understandinglife]

4. "Guantánamo Bay is becoming the anti-Statue of Liberty." So true, Tom!

Keep at it, hiley. Full speed ahead.


Emad Hajjaj, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Amman, Jordan


Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - how ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."