"We do not torture"When was the last time you believed what George Bush said? If the USA does not torture, why did Bush supported an effort spearheaded by Vice President Dick Cheney to block or modify a proposed Senate-passed ban on torture.
Video of a crying 16 year-old Canadian citizen being detained in Guantanamo Bay Prison was released today. Like most Guantanamo Bay prisoners who we have heard from, Omar Khadr claims he has been continuously tortured.
He is accused of killing a US Soldier in 2002 when he was 15 years old. Did he do it? Who knows, most of the prisoners in Gitmo are not allowed a trial.
The video shows Mr. Khadr pleading with a Canadian intelligence agent for help and, at one point, shows him displaying chest and back wounds that had still not healed months after his capture in Afghanistan. Khadr can be heard sobbing and repeatedly saying, in a moan, either “Help me, help me” or “Kill me, kill me.”
Is this what America stands for? Torturing children? Imprisoning people indefinitely without trial? Disgusting.
If we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people, as our great president Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address, than we are all responsible for this torture; you and I.
Sources: Mindfully.org, Harper's & The New York Times
Just in case you forgot how the rest of the world views the USA, here is a reminder:
New documents disclosed [June 17, 2008] show that lawyers in the army, navy and marines objected vigorously to the use of violent methods against detainees but were overruled by aides to the former US defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. The Guardian 
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