I totally agree with all the above! And more — or should I say less?

I agree with the above. We also now have heightened consciousness of America’s role in torture, because under the Bush administration (as far as I know), this was the first time it was officially sanctioned and even former Office of Legal Counsel head Jay Bybee (disgracefully, now a federal judge) has admitted that he authorized (illegal) torture under Bush. Which, of course, is why we should keep up the pressure on getting Bybee impeached and his cohort in torture, John Yoo, disbarred and dismissed from Berkeley law school — if not prosecuted for war crimes, which is the ultimate goal along with their superiors.

The most terrible aspect of the Abu Zubaydah’s case is the horrible torture he had to endure. The US government are out of control torturers, and they operate on a spider web of lies. The US government has always tortured. They ruptured the stomachs of Philipinos with sea water during the American war there about 1900. Maybe 100,000 people were killed by the US military, tens of thousands were waterboarded: men, women and children. The US military used to sing songs during the American war in the Philippines about water boarding torture. We must work so that this mentally challenged prisoner is set free, and that he lives a decent life based on humanitarian protection.

This is utterly ridiculous… surely they’ve not been living in a cave all this time — and should know by now who he really is, what he hasn’t actually done, etc, etc…

Disgusting.

Andy, keep up the great work. And thanks for passing this info on.
I’ll mention it tonite on a public radio interview –

Luke Brandt wrote:

Your excellent work shames the United States Government.

Statements obtained by torture or duress should be discounted as false from the outset. The truth should not require burning, dunking, hanging, electrocution, or the slicing of ones testicles with scalpels…I hold these truths to be self-evident. Force cannot overcome right forever.