One of the most disturbing things I learned last month when I joined a group of leading peace activists in meetings with Iraqi leaders in Amman, Jordan, was that Iraqi detainees are being routinely tortured. Victims of Abu Ghraib told us about the unspeakable things that were being done in our name, as Americans, to our fellow human beings. In every case these victims had not been charged with a crime and were eventually released because they were innocent!
See my video about our meeting with torture victims.
Americans were so upset that Saddam Hussein had tortured his own people that many of them thought that invading Iraq was actually a mission of mercy! Now we find out that it is America that is torturing innocent Iraqi people and our President wants permission to continue doing it!
George Bush is bullying Congress to RETROACTIVELY remove references from the Geneva Convention to "outrages upon personal dignity..." These are exactly the kind of barbaric abuses I learned about while I was in Jordan!
Not my America!
Americans don't support torture for ANY reason. There is a line in the sand that we will not cross - that we CANNOT cross and still consider ourselves civilized people. Intelligence gained from torture is worthless! Torture fuels the fire of hatred that is behind terrorism. But more than that, torture is immoral. And we don't want OUR America to have any part of it.
Take Action Now! Tell Congress to uphold the Supreme Court decision that provides for fair trials and internationally recognized standards for care and treatment of people in detention.
My opponent, Darrell Issa, has good reason to look the other way on torture: His #1 contributor for this election and the last, is Titan, one of two contractors implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal. Despite their connection with contracted torture, Titan's contract was recently renewed. Your contribution to my grassroots campaign will send a strong and clear message that torture is unacceptable.
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Thank you to David Rothmiller and L.D. Thompson of Trick Dog Films for creating this moving video about our meetings in Jordan..