Torture Awareness Month – Day 8
Also please take time to visit The Blogger Roundtable. Her article “Many Faces of War” and others deserve your attention.
This is a re-post of an older story, but one that deserves repeating this month.
Thahee Sabbar and Sherzad Khalid are two of eight men who, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union and the group Human Rights First, are suing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The men claim they were tortured for months, in violation of the U.S. Constitution and international law.
Torture has been the center of controversy lately. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — himself a victim of torture during the Vietnam War — has sparked a heated debate after his proposed amendment to ban torture was reportedly the subject of intense lobbying by Vice President Dick Cheney, who sought an exemption for CIA officers.
When asked about it, President Bush said, “Our country is at war, and our government has the obligation to protect the American people … Any activity we conduct, is within the law. We do not torture.”
Rest of story is posted here