Bush allows torture: Jimmy Carter

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/October/theworld_October361.xml§ion=theworld

11 October 2007


WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush’s administration tortures detainees in defiance of international law, former US president Jimmy Carter charged Wednesday. “I don’t think it, I know it, certainly,” Carter told CNN television when asked if he believed the US administration allowed the use of torture.

Carter rejected Bush’s statement last week that the United States does not torture terror suspects.

“That’s not an accurate statement, if you use the international norms of torture as has always been honoured, certainly in the last 60 years, since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was promulgated,” Carter said in the interview.

“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 it,’” said the former Democratic president and Nobel laureate.

Asked if Bush was lying, Carter said: “The president is self-defining what we have done and authorized in the torture of prisoners, yes.”

Those who commit torture were violating international law, Carter said.

[Jacobin]

1. Its really odd how its become newsworthy for someone to speak

a simple, plain, obvious truth.

[fasttense]

2. Well, the bushes have to torture in order to terrorize

the population. When you go around forcing corporatist policies and neocon "free market" economics on unwilling populations you have to torture them to keep those liberals quiet. It doesn't seem to be working so well in the US but it sure as hell is keeping those liberals in Iraq quiet.