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تحرّيت [أوس] تعذيب وحاكمت أنّ مسؤولة
يوم الأربعاء, يناير - كانون الثّاني [28ث], 2009
جعلت جهود هامّة يكون في أرباع مختلفة أن يغطّي فوق السجل من [أوس] تعذيب ومنعت المقاضاة من عسكريّة والوكالة المركزيّة للاستخبارات الأمريكيّة [تورتثرر] وأنّ [هيغر] مرتفعة الذي أمرهم أن يوفي جرائمهم. يعطّل جمهوريات على المجلس الشيوخ لجنة قضائيّة بشكل تقريريّ موافقة من [برك] [أبما] معينة لنائب عامّ, [إريك] حامل, إلى أن هو يعد لا أن يحاكم أيّ سابقة [بوش دمينيسترأيشن] مسؤولات لجزءهم في يوافق تعذيب. لا أنّ القادمة [أبما] يحتاج نظامة كثير تشجيع على طول أنّ خطوط. قد جعل الإدارة جديدة [سري] من تغيرات تجميليّة أنّ في ما من طريق جدّيّة سيغيّر المسلك قاسية من [أوس] سياسة [إين رغرد تو] ال "حرب على ذعر" والمعالجة من معتقلات. النهائيّة يغلق إلى أسفل من [غنت]? [نمو] إعتقال سيحلّ مخيم وغير شرعيّ وكالة المخابرات الأمريكيّة سجون, [أس ولّ س] المتطلب رسميّة أنّ وكالة المخابرات الأمريكيّة ومستخدمة عسكريّة يتبع الجيش مجال دليل استخدام حظور على تعذيب, لاشيء. الإيديولوجيّة وهيكل سياسيّة? مع ه يرافق شبكة من أوضاع وتبريرات? ل [ور وف غّرسّيون] وهجوم على ديموقراطيّة حقوق أثر مصونة. [أبما] هدف أن يصلح بعض من الإتلاف يتمّ إلى أمريكا الموقف نتيجة ال [بوش دمينيسترأيشن] سياسة السوء وعذّبت يوفي في العراق, أفغانستان, [غنت]? يعيّن [نمو] و[غلغ] من توقيف سرّيّة, دون يغيّر الجوهر من [أوس] سياسة خارجيّة, الإدارة وحدة دفع نحو سيطرة شاملة, والغير شرعيّ وطرق عنيفة يستخدم في التزويد من أنّ سياسة. قد جعل الرئيس جديدة بوضوح إدارته يتلقّى ما من خطط أن يحاكم المقترف, الذي انتهاكات, [إين ني كس], كان وفيت مع ال يشبع معرفة وموافقة من ديموقراتيات رئيسيّة في إجتماع. "لا يصدق أنا أيّ شخص فوق القانون," [أبما] قال الأوساط. "[أن ث ون هند], يتلقّى أنا أيضا إعتقاد أنّ نحن نحتاج أن ينظر إلى الأمام [أس وبّوسد تو] ينظر إلى الخلف." هذا, [فور لّ ينتنتس ند بوربوسس], عفو وقائيّة ل [تورتثرر]. It is critical, however, that just such an investigation into US torture and associated illegal practices be carried out, and the guilty parties, up to the highest levels of the Defense and State departments and the White House, be prosecuted. To pretend, as supporters of Obama and the liberal media are now doing, that these criminal policies can be halted without an exhaustive examination of how they were ordered and carried out?and by whom?is a grotesque fraud. This is a political and moral issue. The aim is not to exact revenge?although those responsible should pay a heavy legal price?but to expose and discredit the policies that have led to war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and threaten even greater crimes and disasters in the future. The American military-intelligence apparatus, the greatest instrument of terror and violence on earth, needs to be uprooted and dismantled. A first step is the careful recording and public exposure of its many crimes. Bush officials remain confident that they will not be called to account for their actions. They can certainly hold over the heads of the Democrats their own complicity. The Wall Street Journal did just that January 6 in a commentary entitled “What Congress Knew About ?Torture.’” The Journal comment points out that leading Democrats?including representatives Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman and senators Jay Rockefeller and Bob Graham?were briefed more than 30 times, beginning in the spring of 2002, on the “CIA’s covert antiterror interrogation programs” and its methods, “including waterboarding and other aggressive techniques.” The article continues: “After September 2006, when President Bush publicly acknowledged the program, the interrogation briefings were opened to the full committees. If Congress wanted to kill this program, all it had to do was withhold funding. And if Democrats thought it was illegal or really found the CIA’s activities so heinous, one of them could have made a whistle-blowing floor statement under the protection of the Constitution’s speech and debate clause.” The complicity of the Democrats and the liberal media continues. True to form, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has written a piece justifying the cover-up of the Bush administration’s illegal activities. In keeping with the current motif of Americans’ supposed collective guilt for the economic crisis and everything else done by the government and the ruling elite, Cohen sums up the theme of the piece in his headline, “Torture? Prosecute Us, Too.” He argues that in “the very different country called Sept. 11, 2001″ there was widespread support for brutal measures. George W. Bush enjoyed “an approval rating of 92 percent, which meant that almost no one thought he was on the wrong course.” As always, the assertion of “collective guilt” is used to shield those who are really guilty. Asserting that “questions about the viability of torture were very much in the air,” Cohen points to the support for torture among fellow liberals, including attorney Alan Dershowitz (who “was suggesting the creation of torture warrants?permission from a court to, in effect, break some bones”) and Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter. “The conventional wisdom,” writes Cohen, “that torture never works?so counterintuitive as to be an absurdity?was not yet doctrine. Neither for that matter was the belief that the coming war in Iraq was a moral and practical absurdity. Congress overwhelmingly voted for war and the American people overwhelmingly supported it.” This, of course, is a further libel. In the first place, Bush was installed in 2000 by the US Supreme Court, not elected, after failing to win the popular vote. Moreover, a massive number of Americans opposed the looming Iraq invasion and protested in the hundreds of thousands in mid-February 2003. Millions of others were highly skeptical about the government’s claims. Under the mistaken impression that the Democratic Party would do something to stop the war, the American people elected a majority of Democrats to Congress in 2006 and voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Even if one were to accept the premise that most of the population backed the initial attack on Iraq, that would amount, above all, to an indictment of the American media, including Cohen, who supported the drive to war and uncritically transmitted the lies of the White House and Pentagon. Famously, Cohen swallowed whole the falsifications passed off at the United Nations by Secretary of State Colin Powell on February 5, 2003 about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, declaring the presentation to be “bone-chilling in its detail.” Having played his own filthy role in making all the subsequent tragedy possible, Cohen now holds the American people responsible for everything he condoned and legitimized. “We tortured. So says the incoming attorney general, Eric Holder. We tortured. So says the person in charge of deciding such matters at Guantanamo.” No, “we” didn’t. On orders from the White House, the US military and CIA tortured, with the approval of Cohen and the political-media establishment. “What are we going to do about it?,” asks the Post journalist. After first asserting the need to find out how the government came to torture and abuse, otherwise “we will not know how to ensure that the future doesn’t wind up looking much like the past,” the columnist proceeds to endorse the rationale that led to the criminal practices. “At the same time, we have to be respectful of those who were in that Sept. 11 frame of mind … and who, in any case, were doing what the nation and its leaders wanted. It is imperative that our intelligence agents not have to fear that a sincere effort will result in their being hauled before some congressional committee or a grand jury.” Precisely the argument of the Wall Street Journal and the ultra-right. David Walsh Have Your Say: Investigate US torture and prosecute those responsible Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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