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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (66142)	7/23/2006 1:05:26 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

There is nothing wrong with taking out Hezbollah, especially after their deadly incursion into Israel. You have to make sure you differentiate between a war that's trying to kill real terrorists and a war that just pretends to do so but was started for another reason, like Iraq. Israel is not talking about letting NATO troops come in as a biffer. That is a good idea. NATO is tougher than UN peacekeepers. Someone needs to come in and break up the fight.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (66142)	7/23/2006 1:58:14 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 93284

BUSH is NOW SADAAM....he has become a war criminal himself Iraqi Detainee Abuse Widespread: Report Reuters Sunday 23 July 2006 Washington - Iraqi detainees were routinely subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other forms of abuse by U.S. interrogators, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Sunday that offers first-hand accounts from three former soldiers. The U.S.-based watchdog group said its report discredits government arguments casting mistreatment of detainees as the aberrant and unauthorized work of a few personnel. It included accounts by former soldiers who said detainees were regularly subjected to beatings, sleep deprivation and stress positions -- practices that started to come to light two years ago when pictures of physical abuse and sexual humiliation at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison surfaced. "These accounts rebut U.S. government claims that torture and abuse in Iraq was unauthorized and exceptional -- on the contrary, it was condoned and commonly used," said John Sifton, author of the report and the group's senior researcher on terrorism and counter-terrorism. A Defense Department spokesman, however, said 12 reviews have been conducted and none found the Pentagon promulgated a policy that condoned, directed or encouraged abuse. "The standard of treatment is and always has been humane treatment of detainees in DoD's custody," said Lt. Col. Mark Ballesteros, a Pentagon spokesman. Human Rights Watch said it could only document instances of abuse from soldiers stationed in Iraq up to April 2004. The United States has faced international criticism for the indefinite detention of detainees at a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for physical abuse and sexual humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The Bush administration, however, says it treats prisoners humanely. The Pentagon acknowledged earlier this month that all detainees held by the U.S. military are covered by an article of the Geneva Conventions that bars inhumane treatment. But Human Rights Watch said the U.S. government's insistence that abusive practices were not authorized or routine and the military's failure to put any blame on leadership have hindered probes into detainee treatment. The group's report offered accounts of abuse at three facilities in Iraq. Former Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis said, in one account, that abusive techniques were commonplace at a Mosul facility, where he was based from February to April 2004. Lagouranis, then a specialist in rank, said he was given interrogation rules on a card that Human Rights Watch said "authorized" the use of dogs, exposure to hot and cold temperatures, sleep deprivation and forced exercise, among other means of coercion. -------