bush.......good or bad?

reply to post by SimonSays

we're hiring and paying 70,000 insurgents to work public jobs
for the military. No wonder we are going broke in this war.
When in the history of war has any nation bought out the opposition??
No wonder Bush is saying that his policy is working and American
deaths are decreasing.

Ottawa (Reuters) - Canada's foreign ministry has put the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners risk being tortured and also classifies some U.S. interrogation techniques as torture, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Thursday. The revelation is likely to embarrass the minority Conservative government, which is a staunch ally of both the United States and Israel. Both nations denied they allowed torture in their jails. The document - part of a training course on torture awareness given to [Canadian] diplomats - mentions the U.S. jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Under "definition of torture" the document lists U.S. interrogation techniques such as forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation and blindfolding prisoners.

"The United States does not permit, tolerate, or condone torture under any circumstances," said a spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Ottawa."The training manual is not a policy document and does not reflect the views or policies of this government," the [embarrassed] Canadian Foreign Minister said. The [Canadian] government mistakenly provided the document to Amnesty International Canada as part of a court case the rights organization has launched against Ottawa over the treatment of detainees in Afghanistan.

Amnesty International’s Secretary-General Alex Neve told Reuters his group had very clear evidence of abuse in U.S. and Israeli jails. "It's therefore reassuring and refreshing to see that ... both of those countries have been listed [as states that torture] and that [Canada’s] foreign policy considerations didn't trump the human rights concern and keep them off the list," he said. Other countries on the AI watch list include Syria, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. "If Israel is included in the list in question, the ambassador of Israel would expect its removal," said Israeli embassy spokesman Michael Mendel.

The awareness course started after Ottawa was criticized for the way it handled the case of Canadian Maher Arar, who was deported [“rendition”] from the United States to Syria in 2002. Arar says he was tortured repeatedly during the year he spent in Damascus prisons. An inquiry into the case revealed that Canadian diplomats had not received any formal training into detecting whether detainees had been abused. January 18, 2008. My comments are in brackets [ ].

I believe this story speaks for itself. More of the Bush43 L E G A C Y.

[edit on 1/18/2008 by donwhite]