Torture - The Stain That Remains

Then came the scandal at Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo became a international human rights cause celebre. The term 'extraordinary rendition' was coined as a process where by terrorist suspects are arbitrarily detained by the CIA, flown to secret sites around the world, held indefinitely and tortured. Most recently it has been revealed that several Eastern European countries were used as sites as part of this international gulag. British cabinet ministers are alarmed at the possible political fallout as over 200 of these rendition flights stopped over on British soil. Subsequently, US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice has been racing around Europe denying that the US uses torture, but the truth is out. Too make matters worse both her and Rumsfeld have a credibility problem as they have uttered innumerable falsehoods pertaining to the Iraq war. When Uncle Donald took the lid off the torture jar he did not do it out of idle curiosity, but out of malice. And to be fair he had the tacit approval of colleagues. Like Pandora we might speculate as to whether he weighed the consequences especially the long term ones. For even though torture might serve an immediate purpose putting the lid back on the jar will prove more difficult. http://www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca/displayarticle796.html

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