Will Nobody In the Media Call It What It Is?

[Warren Stupidity]

I was travelling all day today taking care of various things and I had the misfortune to have to listen to NPR and other mainstream media news cover the torture scandal in the criminal Bush administration. Not once, not even once, did anyone in the media use the word 'torture' to describe what it is that the criminal Bush administration is demanding that Congress legalize. Not once. Are they all, every one of them, afraid to use the word? Are they all not, every one of them, co-conspirators in war crimes? We are committing war crimes and we are now doing so openly and the press is enabling those crimes to be committed.

I am today completely ashamed to be an American. My president openly demanded the authority to torture prisoners and dared anyone to deny him. The brave press corps is instead the press corpse.

[Monkeyman]

1. Yep I was looking for the same thing

If he gets this passed every Country who signed on will do the same

[babylonsister]

2. It was being discussed openly on TV today, especially

after the blivet's speech. I think people are seeing him for what he really is, and it ain't pretty.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. And they used the word 'torture'?

Not anywhere I heard. Instead torture was reframed as 'strong interrogation'.

[babylonsister]

5. I think it's been mentioned numerous times, but between

the tube and reading articles on the internet, I can't be 100% sure. I know the articles are mentioning it. And then there's Colin Powell:

http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=8448

Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell came out in opposition today to White House-sponsored legislation to create special military commissions that would try terrorist suspects, saying he rejects efforts to "redefine" a key provision of the Geneva Conventions.

Powell, a retired Army general who formerly headed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated his position in a letter to Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), one of three Republican senators who are blocking President Bush's plan for military tribunals. The three - who also include Sen. John W. Warner (R-Virginia), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-South Carolina), a member of the committee - are advancing an alternative tribunal bill that contains more protections for defendants.

The letter, dated Sept. 13, was released by McCain's office today as Bush was paying a rare visit to Capitol Hill to lobby Republican lawmakers for support on his military commission bill and on separate legislation that would essentially endorse a controversial warrantless eavesdropping program.

Powell, who served as secretary of state during Bush's first term, objected strongly to changing U.S. compliance with the Geneva Conventions, which include international standards for the treatment of prisoners of war.

"I just returned to town and learned about the debate taking place in Congress to redefine Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention," Powell wrote to McCain. "I do not support such a step and believe it would be inconsistent with the McCain amendment on torture which I supported last year." He referred to a provision, added to the 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill, that prohibits "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of persons under custody or control of the United States government."

[waiting for hope]

4. I did hear this on NPR this morning....

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has published a memoir called Enemy Combatant. Begg says he was arrested in Pakistan without ever being charged with a crime, beaten and psychologically tortured prison camps in Afghanistan and kept in isolation for nearly two years at Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6080557

I thought it was a pretty good interview -

[pretzel4gore]

6. maybe 'tearing out fingernail'!....'torture' is too wimpy....

bush wants that too brutal nuance made normal, the 'new normal' in georgebushamerica

[Berry Cool]

7. Torture was how Olbermann described it, with his guests

Just gotta look in the right place, is all.

[October]

8. My imagination, or was Judy Woodruff reporting on NPR?

I woke up to NPR and Judy Woodruff -- with promises of more reports from her. <sigh>

[pretzel4gore]

9. frigging table dancers!

it seems the rightwing 'poohs are everywhere :(
they go to bed every night knowing they are the enemy of their own country and people; that they can only survive by destroying truth and the public morality