I noticed this story yesterday. I have seen films where former Presidents are still referred to as "Mr President". This might lead to some confusion. However, President George W. Bush states: "This government does not torture people". President Carter states that it does: "I don't think it. I know it". Now, as both are claiming that opposite statements are true only one of them can be the truth and the other is a blatant lie. Given the emergence of evidence from Guantanamo Bay etc, the likelihood is that George W. Bush is the one telling the lie. I seem to recall Richard M. Nixon resigning over telling a lie in the Watergate Affair. Surely, this begs the question shouldn't George W. Bush resign for misleading the public?
Carter Accuses U.S. of Using Torture
Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:40 AM
The United States tortures prisoners, former President Carter charged on Wednesday.
"I don't think it. I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview.
"Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter said. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."
Carter also criticized President Bush's recent declaration: "This government does not torture people."
"That's not an accurate statement if you use the international norms of torture as has always been honored -- certainly in the last 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated," Carter charged.
"But you can make your own definition of human rights and say we don't violate them, and you can make your own definition of torture and say we don't violate them," Carter added.
Commenting on the Carter remarks, a senior White House official said, "Our position is clear. We don't torture. It's just sad to hear a former president speak like that".
George Bush authorised torture, says Carter
But it isn't just foreign nationals which America is guilty of torturing, the country even tortures some of its own children.
Torture, starvation and death: how American boot camps abuse boys
Then we have America guilty of murder and war crimes in Iraq with the killing of 9 innocent children and 6 innocent women.
US air strikes kill 15 Iraqi women and children What makes it even worse in my book is this comment: "These terrorists chose to deliberately place innocent Iraqi women and children in danger by their actions and presence". The danger they were placed in was as a result of the US airstrike. Indiscriminate killing.
America poses the biggest terrorist threat the world now faces.
2 comments:
Dennis Kucinich, who is running as a presidential candidate, keeps trying to push for impeachment in Congress. And even though we (Americans) voted in a Democratic majority last year, they are spineless, and as worthless as tits on a bull!
BTW, I love President Carter. Typically, ex-presidents don't speak out against current presidents, but when you look back, and take it all in, Bush is "the worst" we've ever had. He makes Nixon look like a liberal.
Jimmy can speak the truth now
He doesnt need to be bound by anyone because he's old and he can say whatever he likes and no one will doubt him. I don't doubt that torture methods are used.
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