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8 January 2009 at 1:26:23 PM
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Time This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the America he had authorized on Feb. 7, 2002, when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention — the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime — did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. That signature led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.
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8 Jan 2009 @ 7:26:29 PM
From a book by James Petras, The Power of Israel in the United States: "The torture-interrogation techniques taught by the Israeli instructors, converged nicely, refining and updating the older CIA torture manuals, more specifically introducing specificities pertaining to torturing Muslims, and especially Arabs. But once again the Zionist-Israeli priorities undermined the US imperialist policies: the photo revelations of US soldiers torturing, raping and humiliating Iraqi prisoners discredited the US occupation worldwide, heightened the Arab and Muslim resistance throughout the Middle East and discredited the Bush regime."
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