USA's reputation trashed worldwide, thanks to President Halfwit

[JohnyCanuck]

and the neocons.

From the Barbados Daily Nation:

'Rendering' Torture
By Peter Morgan

People around the world were undoubtedly shocked and horrified at the pictures which were published of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Military Prison in Iraq being tortured, beaten and sexually humiliated by their American captors.

It had been bad enough before this to see prisoners at the Guantanamo Gulag shuffling around blindfolded, manacled and chained at their feet – people who had been imprisoned, often in solitary confinement – for two years or more without ever being charged with an offence.

Now even worse tales of sheer cruelty are coming to light. In a long article in the respected magazine The New Yorker, details have been given of a secretive programme known as “extraordinary rendition”.

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Perhaps the most distressing aspect of all this is that so-called civilised human kind should have descended to such abysmal depths of inhumanity. Those who would castigate savages and the unforgiving laws of the jungle, now take little notice when acts of hideous violence and cruelty on the part of their own kith and kin are published in a leading national magazine.

www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=58144&Section=Life&Current=2005%2D02%2D24%2000%3A00%3A00

(might be a bit slow to load)

[Jehanatu]

1. That's just sick...

That's just absolutely FUCKING SICK! Grr! I cannot stand President fucktard no longer! And, if it were CLINTON, then CNN and Fuck's News and ABC and MSNBC would be conducting two hour "torture-thon's" and say "Oh the horror!" But *? Nooooo! It's W! It's perfectly fine to TORTURE PEOPLE! Even better! Outsource it!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[mwb970]

2. The destruction of America's image in the world will be *'s main legacy.

Yet another reason to despise this man and his criminal cronies.

[FloridaPat]

3. He has 4 more years yet. Don't be so pessamistic.

[Jehanatu]

4. Just Wait.

He'll declare war on Iran later on in his term, then, when things are going nowhere, have the 22nd Amendment repealed with the help of Republican majorities in Congress so he can run for a third term, if they can hold out in the 2006 election.

Damn King Bush II

[Spike from MN]

7. Don't you mean optimistic?

I mean, at the rate we're going, our image may be the least of our worries. Hell, we have the economy, lack of health care, Iraq, Iran, the military-industrial complex sucking up all our tax dollars, rigged elections from now on thus making the neo-con takeover complete...we are just so screwed. How are we ever going to get out of this bind we're in?

[all.of.me]

8. i agree. n/t

[Toots]

5. Sounds like some one is ripe for some good ol' American prison treatment

Don't these people know the Media is not allowed to talk badly about Bush* or America? I would say it is definitely a torture offense. I wonder do most Americans glory in torture?

[JohnyCanuck]

6. Sign of a successful brainwashing/propaganda exercise

What seems to puzzle the author is that by and large the population seems to not give a shit about what is being done in their name. I think it's just a sign of a successful brainwashing operation that has lead many Americans to equate dissent with treason.


From Brainwashing America by Dr. Norman Livergood:

Americans are being brainwashed to ask only the questions the Bushites allow and they are programmed to see everything the Bush junta does as unquestionably correct. The brainwashing has gone so far that Americans no longer see what has happened to our country.


Personality Profiling and Simulation


In an earlier article, I reviewed the varied aspects of personality profiling and simulation. While serving as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:

* unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns

* these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems

* these profiling systems can be used to program and control people

Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control. (My emphasis /jc)

http://www.new-enlightenment.com/brainwash1.htm

[Karenina]

9. Good piece!

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