Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category
Dear President George W. Bush, I owe you an apology. I said some pretty mean things in the heat of your Presidency, and now that I’ve had some time to cool off, I want to tell you that I’m sorry and how much I’ve changed. I said some pretty awful things: I called you “the [...]
Vanity Fair published an article this month by Philippe Sands about how torture came to be the policy of the United States of America. Tearing apart the Bush Administration’s lies that atrocities were isolated acts by “a few bad apples” and that “enhanced interrogation” was given limited approval as a result of requests from interrogators, [...]
Today is the 5th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. This week in Washington, returning soldiers have gathered for an event called “Winter Soldier,” to share their stories and make public their eyewitness accounts and confess their participation in atrocities and war crimes committed by the US Military, inspired by the 1971 [...]
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