But we're the SHINING CITY ON THE HILL PEOPLE!!! SHINING CITY ON THE HILL!

[kpete]

All former detainees...released because, well, turns out they weren't "the terrorizers". So we're just drugging them because ultimately we can.

But we're the SHINING CITY ON THE HILL PEOPLE!!! SHINING CITY ON THE HILL!

"Last best hope of mankind" and all that sh*t.

Naturally, the Bush Administration denies they did anything at all...
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2008/04/say-yes-to-torture.html

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Detainees Allege Being Drugged, Questioned
U.S. Denies Using Injections for Coercion

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 22, 2008; A01

Written to provide legal justification for interrogation practices, the memo by then-Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo rejected a decades-old U.S. ban on the use of "mind-altering substances" on prisoners. Instead, he argued that drugs could be used as long as they did not inflict permanent or "profound" psychological damage. U.S. law "does not preclude any and all use of drugs," Yoo wrote in the memo. He declined to comment for this article.

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Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle.

"I'd fall asleep" after the shot, Nusairi, a former Saudi policeman captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2002, recalled in an interview with his attorney at the military prison in Cuba, according to notes. After being roused, Nusairi eventually did talk, giving U.S. officials what he later described as a made-up confession to buy some peace.

"I was completely gone," he remembered. "I said, 'Let me go. I want to go to sleep. If it takes saying I'm a member of al-Qaeda, I will.' "

Nusairi, now free in Saudi Arabia, was unable to learn what drugs were injected before his interrogations. He is not alone in wondering: At least two dozen other former and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere say they were given drugs against their will or witnessed other inmates being drugged, based on interviews and court documents.

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042103399_pf.html

[bdamomma]

1. crimes against humanity are still continuing, shameful.

[islandmkl]

2. will there be a New Nuremburg?...

will everyone just get away with their crimes?

is there a body in the world that has enough power to prosecute these criminals?

[Tesha]

4. We will never remand the villains over for "foreign" war crimes trials.

And we will never do anything about this ourselves.

As usual, the guilty will walk because they're "big".

Tesha

[Lint Head]

3. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Just focus on the

shinning city on the hill. Click your heels together and say,'We do not torture. We do not torture. We do not torture. We do not torture. We do not torture'. :dem: