Letter to the Editor
The torture of prisoners in Iraq is not entirely surprising. The Bush administration has been actively advocating the use of torture ever since 9-11. Many statements have been made floating the idea that torture might be used is special circumstances. Prisoners were given new classifications other that Prisoner of War in order to avoid the restrictions of international law. These prisoners were deliberately reclassified into a legally murky area where no rules exists for one and one reason only - so that they could break the rules.
The abuse of prisoners in Iraq was not the acts of a few individuals. It was in fact the real policy of the military and those soldiers were operating on orders from the top.
What the President creates lawless and encourages it and advocates breaking of the rules then it comes as no surprise when the rules are broken. Bush is responsible for the torture of prisoners in Iraq because he is the one who has made it known that the rule of international law does not apply to what America does. I therefore call on the entire Bush administration to take responsibility and step down from power. This is the kind of thing that happens when America allows a president to take power who was never elected in the first place.
SIDE NOTE:
I found yet another site that has the movie of the execution of 3000 Afgan POWs. Apparently the 17 minute movie I send you a link to was edited dowm. This link has a version with more details and is 59 minutes long. It is also in Real format instead of Quicktime.
The video is a Candaian Broadcasting Corporation documentary detailing the execution of 3000 prisoners by suffocation and the survivors shot and buried in mass graves. It's far bigger that the Iraqi story.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm
I can see by my log files that it's not just the military who is looking at my video. I see that there are some ".gov" hosts as well that have accesses this movie. The CIA has read it and one hit from the US house of representatives.
At this point I want everyone who reads this to call the house and the senate members to let them know.
http://www.house.gov
http://www.senate.gov
Don't just email. Make a phone call and talk to a person about it.
And - it's time to call for the entire Bush administration to step down.
Please link to this page and this video
Congress and Bush are complaining that they didn't know - that they were never told until they saw it on the news. They promise that this won't happen again. Well - lets put that to the test.
48 hours ago I posted a video produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that documents a mass murder of 3000 Afgan prisoners in 2001 after the American Telaban was captured. Here is that video:
Afgan POWs Killed - 55mb Quicktime Format
Here's another link:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm
Looking at my log files I can see that out of over 7000 downloads that about 100 of them came from military installations. Specifically from an army base in Fort Leonardwood and the Navy Base in San Deigo, so - the army knows about this. The question is - now that they have seen it - will the military cover this up?
I just had a discussion with my girlfriend about this. She contends that there are honorable people in the military who will do the right thing and make it public and come clean and face the music. I have the opposite opinion that there is in fact not a single honest person in the military and that they will do everything in their power to cover it up and conceal it.
Time will tell which one of us is right. Quite frankly - I hope she is.
So you ask - what good does this do to expose American atrocities? Doesn't that help the enemies of freedom? The short answer is - no - what hurts America is that it happened in the first place. But there's something even worse than that it happened in the first place - that we get away with it.
If this is something that is occurring we can not get away with this because if we get away with it then we will do it again and again. We won't stop doing it until we are seriously busted and pay the price and put systems in place to ensure that we never do this again.
I think about how Hitler started. He committed similar atrocities and he got away with it. The more he got away with the more he committed till they got to the point where it was unstoppable. Now it is us who are starting down that path of torture, rape, and murder.
The reality is - what's happening in Iraq is in part a result of the fact that they got away with a far greater abuse of power in Afghanistan. We stuffed 3000 POWs in trucks and allowed them to suffocate. We left them there in the hot sun for a week. Then we shot the survivors and burred them in a mass grave. And - we got away with it.
Who are we and what are we becoming? Is this who we want to be? I'll answer that - no it is not. So - I say to you in the military who find this web site and see this video and who sit back and do nothing. I say to you - you are fucking cowards - no better than Nazis. I say to you - Fuck you! I have no respect for cowards who sit back with your mouth shut and let it happen. It doesn't take courage to fight and die. Nazis did that just fine. The ones who truly have courage are the ones who stand up for what is right.
There is no difference morally between those soldiers who commit atrocities because they are ordered to and soldiers who lie and cover up atrocities because they are told to. If you see this video and you keep your mouth shut - you are as bad as those who did it. Is there no soldier who has the guts to stand up and say, "This is wrong and I am not going to participate in this!" We know about what happened in Iraq because someone had the courage to do what is obviously the right thing to do. So - I say to the military - who's side are you on? Do you serve the People or do you cover your own sorry butt?
So - are you brave enough to stand up for what is right? Tell me who is going to win the bet - me or my girlfriend?
Letter to the Editor
First America went to war to liberate Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction. That turned out to be a lie. Then it was because Saddam was an oppressive dictator who tortured, raped, and murdered his people. Now it turns out that Americans are now torturing, raping, and murdering the Iraqi people. And Rumsfield has said the pictures we haven't seen include guards sodomizing young boys, female prisoners raped, sadistic torture, and indecent acts with dead bodies. Today the Statue of Liberty is standing on a box with a bag over her head.
If you think that prisoner abuse in Iraq is bad - you haven't seen anything yet. I snagged this video off the Internet about a year ago and I think it's finally time I posted it.
Convoy of Death
There's only one war on our television screens now - that other war, the one from just a year ago, has been forgotten - but not by everyone. In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.
After screening the videotape last fall, the European Parliament called for an investigation. The United Nations has authorized an official investigation into the film's allegations, but only if the security of its members can be guaranteed. And security is hard to find in northern Afghanistan. Since this documentary was filmed, eyewitnesses have been tortured. Others have disappeared or been killed.
This video is about how the US slaughtered 3000 Afgan prisoners of war. The video is big - 55 megs download and it is shocking. It makes the Black Hole of Calcutta look like a picnic. These prisoners were left in sealed truck containers to suffocate and fry in the hot sun. The few that survived a week were taken out and shot an buried in mass graves.
The video is EXTREMELY disturbing and it will give you nightmares. If you are not ready to see this footage - DO NOT WATCH IT !!! This is NAZI level stuff.
Afgan POWs Killed - 55mb Quicktime Format
Read about the making of this video on Buzzflash:
Once you've seen this - call your congress critter and let them know about this. The only thing scarier that the fact that this happened is that fact that Bush is covering it up.
Letter to the Editor
We don't know what Bush said at the 9-11 hearing but his actions speak louder than his words. Bush resisted creating the commission, then he resisted testifying before it. When he did testify he insisted on doing it behind closed doors, with Cheney there to guide him, and with no recording device or transcripts allowed.
Obviously Bush isn't very proud of his 9-11 conduct because he's doing everything he can to hide it. The way I see it - if he's hiding it - it's because he knows he has something to hide.