The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
Unexceptional Americans: Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/19-7
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Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com: "The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. Why else send prisoners where they would be beyond the reach of the law - a place, incidentally, that Washington is using in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba at the point of a gun? Security reasons were, of course, alleged, but they remain hard to take seriously."
http://www.truthout.org/051909B?n
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/19-7
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Why We Can't See the Trees or the Forest: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com: "The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so. For one thing, even without inquiry, it was reasonable to suppose that Guantanamo was a torture chamber. Why else send prisoners where they would be beyond the reach of the law - a place, incidentally, that Washington is using in violation of a treaty forced on Cuba at the point of a gun? Security reasons were, of course, alleged, but they remain hard to take seriously."
http://www.truthout.org/051909B?n
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
rudkla - 20. Mai, 05:55
