How Quickly We Forget Why We Voted Them Out In The First Place - by BooMan

[kpete]

How Quickly We Forget

by BooMan
Tue Nov 16th, 2010 at 10:57:53 AM EST
People forgot why we voted the bastards out in the first place:

British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured.

Ministers are expected to announce today that a settlement has been reached with at least seven men in a combined pay-off likely to run into millions of pounds. One of the former detainees could receive compensation worth around £1m, ITV News reported last night.

They claimed that agents both from MI5 and MI6 were complicit in their degrading treatment by turning a blind eye to their "rendition" to the United States detention camp and to the torture of some of them.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/guantanamo-inmates-set-to-receive-payouts-of-up-to-1631m-2135132.html

Meanwhile, John Yoo is free to ponder why Obama appeals only to "the extremes of the educational distributional curve."
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/79182/yoo-cant-be-serious

Our country? It could be better.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/11/16/105753/60

[Solly Mack]

1. Forgetting the war crimes isn't an option

K&R

[kpete]

2. thanks Solly Mack

for ALWAYS having my back,
peace, kpete

[Solly Mack]

4. It's always a pleasure to recommend the news you bring to DU.

Thank you for all the work you do in keeping us informed.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Turn that page, and look forward!

[Blue_Tires]

5. of course, only took 7 comments before the "ticking timebomb" fallacy

these are dark times...

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread,kpete.