The, ahem, Leaders In Our Government Have Gone Off The Deep End!
The next time you hear a Republican say they are doing such and such to protect the children now you know they are full of shit, US held youngsters at Abu Ghraib:

"He told me he was almost 12," she said. "He told me his brother was there with him, but he really wanted to see his mother, could he please call his mother. He was crying."

This is what your government is doing now. What kind of sick people are Bush, Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Lugar, Roberts, Frist? If these people had any decency they would resign. As those responsible for the torture by our military continue to go unpunished, Pentagon Clears Top Personnel, Policies in Abuses:

The Pentagon said its policies and top officials did not cause the mistreatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, but in a report released on Thursday cited a series of missed opportunities to correct lapses that led to the abuses.

It should come as not surprise that they continue their work, Pentagon Seeks to Transfer More Detainees From Base in Cuba:

The Pentagon is seeking to enlist help from the State Department and other agencies in a plan to cut by more than half the population at its detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in part by transferring hundreds of suspected terrorists to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to senior administration officials

Another feel good story, The Rendering:

"We don't kick the [expletive] out of them," one top Bush official told The Washington Post on Dec. 26, 2002. "We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them." In that same article, other Bush honchos boasted about withholding medical treatment from wounded prisoners; knowingly sending prisoners to be tortured in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan ("I do it with my eyes open," said one top agent); and breaking international law as a routine part of interrogations by U.S. operatives. "If you're not violating someone's human rights," said an interrogation supervisor, "you're probably not doing your job." These freely admitted violations included beatings, hooding, exposure, sexual humiliation and the medieval barbarism of strappado: chaining a prisoner with his arms twisted behind his back and suspending him from the ceiling, where the weight of his own body tears at his sockets and sinews.

- posted by Mom/Dad @ 9:49 AM