It’s not like we’re talking about revealing troop positions, anyway. The Iraqis already know our troop positions because we’re drive up and down their roads like sitting ducks anyway, as occupiers.

That’s plain wrong and Americans are going to have to find their balls and start asserting their rights.

We can start by extraditing Cheney and Rumsfeld to Germany to be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity. That should be the very first most basic thing.

The Bush’s interoffice communications from his term as Governor of Texas need to be opened up, then the interoffice communications and emails of the White House during the Bush Presidency. The contents of the infamous secret energy conference have to be made public.

There should be automatic prison time if documents are found to have been destroyed to prevent criminal investigations from obtaining information.

We’ve put up with this infantile behavior on the part of these idiots for too long. Let’s end it, like, yesterday.

Identify the predator.

The most dangerous elements of the political infrastructure, the military units, are left to run amok, beyond criticism and any form of accountability.

Injustice begins with your government as determined by your courts.

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

President George W. Bush has decided that he can declare himself to be protecting and defending us the citizens and let that ostensible course of action replace protecting and defending the Constitution. Congress, and sometimes the Supreme Court, have found Bush’s self-appointment as the Overrruler to be acceptable.

I think Bush was thinking more in line of electromagnetic radiation instead of sunshine.

By the way, this post isn’t just about the Bush administration’s treatment of foreigners, but also how the administration treats US citizens by spying on them. The Supreme Court decision not to hear el-Masri’s case will probably make it more difficult for Americans to obtain redress regarding abuses as well.

Torture in Syrian prisons is well-documented. The state department’s own report cites an array of gruesome tortures routinely used in Syrian jails

The next morning, Arar says a Syrian intelligence officer arrived carrying a black electrical cable, two inches thick and about two feet long.

“He said, ‘Do you know what this is?’ I said, I was crying, you know, ‘Yes, I know what it is. It’s a cable.’ And he said, ‘Open your right hand.’ I opened my right hand … and he beat me very strongly,” says Arar. “He said, ‘Open your left hand.’ And I opened my left hand. And he beat me on my palm, on my left palm. And then he stopped, and he asked me questions. And I said to him, ‘I have nothing to hide.’”

Arar says the physical torture took place during the first two weeks, but he says he also went through psychological and mental torture: “They would take me back to a room, they call it the waiting room. And I hear people screaming. And they, I mean, people, they’re being tortured. And I felt my heart was going to go out of my chest.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/21/60II/main594974.shtml

Less Safe, Less Free
Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
David Cole and Jules Lobel

At home and abroad, the administration has cut corners on fundamental commitments of the rule of law in the name of preventing future attacks—from “waterboarding” detainees, to disappearing suspects into secret CIA prisons, to attacking Iraq against the wishes of the UN Security Council and most of the world when it posed no imminent threat of attacking us.

http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1640