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scottxyz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-04 03:19 AM
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Bush Approved The Torture!!!
Edited on Thu May-13-04 03:35 AM by scottxyz
http://www.cmaq.net/fr/node.php?id=16718

Within days of 9/11, members of the Bush administration including Bush proposed the use of torture. They claimed because 9/11 was an act of terrorism the Geneva Convention did not apply because terrorist suspects were not prisoners of war; instead, in an unprecedented form of Texas-style verbal gerrymandering suspects were to be classified as enemy combatants. ...

This is the real story behind the torture reports the media has left out. For those that still fail to remember how this administration approved torture I suggest a trip to the local library and reading the immediate post 9/11 newspapers. You will find that all the top officials Bush, Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Powell and others approved the use of torture on terrorist suspects.

... A quick Google search of the web will reveal reports of torture and mistreatment of prisoners as early as January 2002. In a February 2002 article appearing in the Guardian, Wayne Madsen a former U.S. navy intelligence officer told the Guardian the US was using two methods of torture. The first he referred to as "lite" torture or psychological torture. (Note this is the torture method linked to mind control and child abuse and will appear in an article of a later date.) The second method is "full-blown" torture.

In this second method it turns the prisoners over to a third country that has no limits on torture for interrogation. The interrogation proceeds oftentimes with an American overseeing the torture. Some prisoners have been summarily executed after the interrogation. The procedure of turning the prisoner over to a third country for interrogation is known as 'rendition.'

On March 11, 2002 the Washington Post published an article entitled "US Behind Secret Transfer of Terror Suspects." The article quoted a U.S. diplomat saying, "After September 11, these sorts of movements have been occurring all the time. It allows us to get information from terrorists in a way we can’t do on US soil." The article reports that "Since Sept. 11, the US government has secretly transported dozens of people suspected of links to terrorists to countries other than the United States, bypassing extradition procedures and legal formalities, according to Western diplomats and intelligence sources."
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scottxyz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-04 03:24 AM
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1. Patriot Act is America's Nuremberg law (Bush avoiding criminal charges)
Bush has followed the same path Hitler took. The Nazis first passed euthanasia laws before murdering the feebleminded. They passed the Nuremberg laws before persecuting the Jews. The Patriot Act is America's Nuremberg law. It is only one example of many of steps the Bush administration has taken to avoid criminal charges.

http://www.cmaq.net/fr/node.php?id=16718
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Tellurian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-04 03:25 AM
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2. more of the article:
"While the shutter captured the gruesome horror in graphic detail, it missed capturing the full scope of the incident, as did CBS. This was not an isolated incident. It was not the result of a few rogues. Rather this incident was the result of careful long-term planning. In fact Bush and every other high official of this administration approved of the torture and we have their own words on that. The full scope leads down a dark trail, involving CIA mind control programs, child abuse/pedophile control rings, Nazi scientists and the vital recognition of the Bush family's willful and voluntary association for more than 80 years with Nazi elements."


Whoa... where is this going?
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-04 03:32 AM
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3. Good point here:
"When the President, the Vice President and cabinet secretaries recommend committing war crimes, it is an impeachable offense."

right on..
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-04 03:33 AM
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4. Of course it came from the top, but you should probably edit your post
Edited on Thu May-13-04 03:34 AM by Wonk
even if that is from the article's headline.

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