DARKNESS VISIBLE: U.S. ADMITS TORTURE AT GUANTANAMO

DARKNESS VISIBLE: US ADMITS TORTURE AT GUANTANAMO
Who will apologize to Dick Durbin? Who will apologize to America and the world? The United States has privately admitted its shameful torture practices to a special United Nations Commission, while publicly attacking its critics.  The moral darkness of the Bush Administration in its actions at Guantanamo is matched by the cynicism it employs to silence those who tell the truth.  We will hear it was just subordinates who engaged in torture. Reality tells us otherwise. The Bush Administration has subordinated decency to its dark vision that all the world will soon see.

GENEVA (AFP) - Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.
The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on condition of anonymity.

"They are no longer trying to duck this, and have respected their obligation to inform the UN," the Committee member told AFP.
"They  will have to explain themselves (to the Committee). Nothing should be kept in the dark."

UN sources said it was the first time the world body has received such a frank statement on torture from US authorities.

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Comments

[that colored fella]

Thanks for the quick heads up, my friend! I'll be collecting apologies for my senior U.S. Senator Dick Durbin over at TCFW!

[The Heretik]

TCF, it is a most sorry situation. Get the word out.

[bitchphd]

Wow. Thanks for the email.

[The Heretik]

You are welcome. Hard to say that on news like this, but we need to say hello to what's at our door and deal with it.

[DuWayne]

Finaly. . .

[Steve Bates]

Good work as always, Heretik... how you find these things so quickly always amazes me. I've appended basic info (and a link to you and to Jeanne d'Arc) to my post "Houston Denounces Torture," about the Amnesty rally this Sunday. Thanks, and keep it up.

[sumo]

Thanks for the email...I am happy to link it on my blog for the non-politicos that come my way.

[Pepper]

Wow. Seems to me that the administration suffers from exceptionalism gone hogwild. No one can torture EXCEPT Americans because Americans are by nature morally superior, and they know when to stop. (As if it is ever right in the first place.) And no one can invade another nation pre-emptively EXCEPT Americans because they just know - because they're Americans, ya see - when someone is about to do bad.