The outrage around the world is deafening - except in the United States, the worlds most prominent state sponsor of torture.
The people in the US seem to be 'numbed' by a 911 psychological effect - unable to clearly discern between a real threat, and one made up to support geopolitical ends.
To this end, the US backs the regime in Uzbekistan - the same regime that most recently brutally killed about 500 or so civilians, women children and police to put down a civil uprising.
Uzbekistan is also known as an ally to the US' "war on terror" which has been exposed as the source of terror itself. In fact a quick search will reveal the utter monstrostities that are being carried out - including boiling of victims body parts, or immersion in boiling fluids.
The following story goes into more detail:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1484251,00.html
"Uzbekistan is believed to be one of the destination countries for the highly secretive 'renditions programme', whereby the CIA ships terrorist suspects to third-party countries where torture is used that cannot be employed in the US. Newspaper reports in America say dozens of suspects have been transferred to Uzbek jails."
In Canada, we have a policy not to trade with countries that commit or support torture. The US is clearly one of these. The documented trail of the support of this torture from the highest places in the US regime has been ignored or suppressed.
It is time to arrest these criminals, for your own sake, before they come to torture you also.
First they came for the Taliban, but I was not one of those. Then they came for the Iraqis, but I was not one of those...
I would ask your friends in the military, possibly John McCain, whether they feel that the US torture policies make them feel safer? Would their potential captors now feel justified to show american prisoners similar hospitality?