Canada Says the U.S. Tortures

By Eric on January 18, 2008

The title says it all. This should be no surprise to anyone, since there’s overwhelming evidence that the United States tortures prisoners at Guantanamo Bay (and those are posts from just one blog!). The Canadian government is just making it official.

An official Canadian government document has put both the United States and Israel on a watch list of countries where prisoners run the risk of being tortured, CTV television reported on Thursday.
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The document mentions the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba where a Canadian man is being held.

CTV said the document was part of a course on torture awareness given to Canadian diplomats to help them determine whether prisoners they visited abroad had been mistreated.

It said the document mentioned U.S. interrogation techniques such as “forced nudity, isolation, and sleep deprivation.”

Yep, it’s all torture before we even get to the “question” of waterboarding–which, by the way, is only a question because the U.S. government says it is.

Oh, and guess which foreign governments the Bush administration is taking after?

Other countries on the watch list include Syria, China, Iran and Afghanistan, CTV said.

The Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves. American values and dignity are the newest casualties in the War on Terror, and the terrorist-in-chief is George W. Bush.

Tags: Canada, Guantanamo Bay, torture

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There are 2 responses to “Canada Says the U.S. Tortures”

1. [...] it, we think it’s okay that we did it, and we’d do it again. This is hardly news since Canada knew that we tortured and the international media knew that we tortured. Even some Americans [...]

   —crazydrumguy | readblog | » Bush Is OK With Torture, But the Rest of the World Isn’t on February 6, 2008 at 4:47 pm

2. [...] it, we think it’s okay that we did it, and we’d do it again. This is hardly news since Canada knew that we tortured and the international media knew that we tortured. Even some Americans [...]

   —Student Life on February 6, 2008 at 4:53 pm