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Friday, June 24, 2005
Huh?
Via Tom Tomorrow from Forbes:
Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.
Assuming the Forbes article is correct, let's face one fact. We -- Americans -- torture people. Millions of Americans think this is flat awful. Rush Limbaugh makes a buck by selling novelty t-shirts. (Yes, it's true). Despicable.
The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on condition of anonymity.
"They are no longer trying to duck this and have respected their obligation to inform the UN," the Committee member said.
"They they will have to explain themselves (to the Committee). Nothing should be kept in the dark," he said.
UN sources said this is the first time the world body has received such a frank statement on torture from US authorities.
