Bloomberg.com reports, "U.S. military investigators told senators today that forcing a top male detainee to wear lingerie and perform dog tricks was 'no evidence of inhumane treatment' at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for terror suspects." Are these the types of things free people do? Are these the kinds of things a democratic nation does? How anyone can read the following and not consider it torture is mind boggling:
to get al-Qahtani to talk, interrogators told him his mother and sisters were whores, forced him to wear a bra, forced him to wear a thong on his head, forced him to dance with a male interrogator, told him he was homosexual and said that other prisoners knew it.The ends do not justify the means. When we use the tactics and strategies of those we oppose we become them. We lose our dignity.
He was also strip searched, threatened with dogs, forced to stand naked in front of women and forced him onto a leash, to act like a dog.
This was done in our name. These acts do not constitute the actions of some "bad apples." These actions were approved and ordered at the highest levels. George Bush makes a mockery of the ideals upon which this country was founded. That we've had trouble in the past living up to those ideals is no reason to allow George Bush and his minions to continue making a mockery of those ideals.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands . . . ." It is soon becoming time for us to dissovle the political bonds that tie us to the President of the United States and the government he leads. "The history of the present [government] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny."
"J'Accuse...!"
