Colorful Prose

April 5th, 2007 by dani

“In December of 2001, the Bush administration…authorized the secret seizure, detention, and interrogation of persons and subjected them to torture.

“In January of 2002, the Bush administration declared that Geneva Conventions protection will not be honored for the ‘War on Terror.’

“In August 2002, the administration attempted to redefine torture to escape liability.”

- International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity by the Bush Administration

 

“Let us be clear: torture can never be an instrument to fight terror, for torture is an insturment of terror.”

- United Nations former Secretary General, Kofi Annan

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2 Responses

  1. meredith Says:

    As usual, you have provided me with good food for thought. If you want to participate, I tagged you with the Thinking Blogger award/meme.

  2. Colorful Prose » Blog Archive » Thinking Blogger Award Says:

    […] I’ve been tagged with a for this post, which is nothing more than a collection of what others have already said! That must mean I have to […]

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