On the heels of Bush’s statement that "we don’t torture", The greatest president this country ever had ( sorry wingnuts and Reagan fetishists) Jimmy Carter speaks it plainly and truthfully.
btw- Carter winged Bush Administration too...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday.
"I don't think it. I know it," Carter told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," Carter said. "We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they are accused."
The US is torturing people with newly approved tortures like simulated drowning, head-slapping, and prolonged exposure to freezing temperatures, according to the Times.
"That's not an accurate statement if you use the international norms of torture as has always been honored -- certainly in the last 60 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated.
"But you can make your own definition of human rights and say we don't violate them, and you can make your own definition of torture and say we don't violate them."
That’s what we have become. Torturers. Our government tortures cabbies while we shop at Wal Mart. I mean this is just where the country I once loved and admired has so fucked up in my eyes. I don’t know if I can ever feel great about Americas after this.
Torture is the one crucible upon which America was exalted, and now it is another mile of high ground gone forever.
And the wingnuts who support the torture and believe the lies about how many attacks we stopped are all dolts who never understood where America’s greatness came from in the first place.