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May 04, 2006
Enough Already
John Bolton's fabulous performance in front of congress this week should be applauded.
But now it's time to bring him home and get US out of the United Nations. In what has become theater of the absurd, the UN Committee Against Torture is going to "grill" the United States about our interpretation of torture and rate our record on the issue.
Here is an example of the brilliant questions the 10 "independent" "experts" will ask:
The committee is demanding the United States explain why it established secret prisons, what rules and methods of interrogation it employs, and whether the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush assumes responsibility for alleged acts of torture committed by American agents outside U.S. territory.
Why do we have secret prisons? Because we are at war.
What rules and methods of interrogation we employ? Harsh ones because we are at war.
Does the Bush administration assume responsibility for alleged acts of torture? Yes, and it has sentenced to prison many soldiers who have engaged in torture--even though we are at war.
I have a question for the UN. What better things could it be doing than wagging its finger and holding investigations into alleged US "torture?"
1. Iran (that tortures)
2. Sudan (that tortures)
3. China (that tortures)
4. Syria (that tortures)
5. North Korea (that tortures)
6. Palestinian territory (that tortures)
7. Burma (that tortures)
8. Zimbabwe (that tortures)
9. Eritrea (that tortures)
10. Somalia (that tortures)
11. Cuba (that tortures)
12. Russia (that tortures)
There's a dozen productive things the UN could be doing.
Posted by Aaron at May 4, 2006 07:37 AM
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13. Isreal (that tortures)
14. Iraq (that tortures)
15. Saudi Arabia (that tortures)
16. Egypt (that tortures)...
It isn't just countries you find it fashionable to dislike that are doing it. But none of those countries are kidnapping people from other countries in order to do it.
It was pretty well established at the Nuremburg trials, that we presided over, that "war" isn't a valid excuse for a country doing whatever it wants to. All of these questions need to be asked. But it shouldn't have to be the UN that's doing the asking. I should have been the Senate. But since the republican lapdogs that are running the Senate wouldn't take this president to task for forcable rape on the whitehouse lawn, it's a good thing somebody is asking.
Finally, the Bush administration has taken no responsibility whatsoever for it's conduct. Blaming and then imprisoning as few enlisted soldiers isn't taking responsibility, it's scapgoating. And is at least as reprehensible as anything else that this administration has ever done.
Posted by: IaintBacchus at May 4, 2006 10:31 AM