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Torturing the Way to Freedom Posted: Thursday, May 6, 2004 US postpones report on its rights record U.S. fails to block U.N. anti-torture vote The United States failed to block a U.N. vote Wednesday on a plan to strengthen a treaty on torture, and was widely criticized by allies for trying to do so. The United States argued that the measure, known as a protocol, could pave the way for international and independent visits to U.S. prisons and to terror suspects being held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. One address, two distinct audiences He should have apologized Bush apologizes for abuse scandal to Jordan At a White House news conference after talking with visiting Jordan's King Abdullah, Bush said: "I told him I was sorry for thehumiliation suffered by the Iraqi prisoners and the humiliation suffered by their families." Arabs Say Bush Interviews Are Too Little Too Late What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded. Meltdown in Iraq No Apology from Bush for Abusive Troops Wait ... tell us again: Why is US in Iraq? Suicide bomb kills six at US base Inhuman and degrading Torturing the Way to Freedom While prisoner abuse by US forces have been reported since the invasion of Afghanistan and well into the invasion of Iraq, it took photographs of US soldiers and mercenaries gleefully torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners before anyone took these reports seriously Kerry will be no less pro-Israel than Bush 'Iraq deja vu Vietnam' Toll 'hits 630' in Nigeria attack United States of shame This War and Racism -- Media Denial in Overdrive   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |