The US abducts foreigners, and then denies case.?

Question

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scotus10oct10,0,129162.story?coll=la-home-nation

How can the US say it is a great paragon of virtue?

How can you say America is "land of the free" and the "arsenal of democracy" when the CIA runs around abducting foreign citizens, deporting them to the Middle East and torturing them?

Of course, they can't torture them on US soil... Its just a simple matter of taking the person elsewhere to torture them!

Normally, as a Red-Tory conservative type I would question this German citizen's story about how he was handed over to the CIA, and then tortured by them in Afghanistan.

However, when you get the government denying his case saying that his story would "expose state secrets", doesn't this make you wonder?

What "State secrets" does the Bush administration have to hide?

How many others have been tortured by the arsenal of democracy and possibly killed to keep the "state secrets" safe???

Khaled Masri was denied contact to a German embassy by the CIA.

Why did they do this?

A name mix-up. "Khalid Masri" is the name of a known terrorists. The CIA got "Khaled" and "Khalid" mixed up, so they tortured a German citizen for several months before realizing they had the WRONG PERSON...

...Did they admit their mistake?

No, they leave him to die in the hills of Albania.

And then the great and free US courts deny his case because it might expose secrets. Yeah, so torturing is now legal, as long as you take the citizen to the East. Thats the big US secret.

Is this a new low for the United States?

Bush isn't the US? Oh, I see your logic...

Oh wait, no I don't see your logic. Bush was VOTED in. The PEOPLE VOTED Bush in. BUSH represents the PEOPLE, thus he represents the UNITED STATES.

51% of Americans supported him when he was elected; the majority of Americans believed in what he was doing. It hasn't changed that much...

If the majority of US citizens support Bush, then Bush is the US representative.

If I'm a "freak" for believing that the United States shouldn't abduct and torture foreign citizens of soverign nation, what does that make YOU?

While not directly called a "paragon of virtue", it is portrayed that way by American citizens.

Didn't you see the question earlier this week?

A half-dozen copies of "What makes the US 100 times better than any other country?"

And the US (specifically Detroit) was called the "Arsenal of Democracy" by Roosevelt during WW2.

Answer 1

This story is an outrage, a total abuse of power, but why am I not surprised? This is the MO of the Bush Administration. As long as they keep getting away with it, they will keep doing it. That is human nature at it's worst. The Bush Administration has ruined more lives and committed more egregious acts than I can fathom. Too bad most people in this country likes to keep their head in the sand, and pretend like it'll all go away. You reap what you sow, and the chickens are coming home to roost.

Answer 2

No undertaking... My spouse is married to a foreigner ?. the main uncomplicated question she is asked is that if I rather have a brother or buddies that they could marry. The inflow of foreigners on the 2nd is from Korea, and specific, there are lawsuits approximately a number of them being caught up (pointy nosed via interior sight description), yet as long as you manage the filipinos as fellow beings, they're worry-free to get alongside with.

Answer 3

I totally agree.
It is wrong for the US to do something like that.
Bush has soooooo many secrets that he is hiding.
It makes us seem like hypocrites.
Well, me lol since I live here.
But not you since you're Canadian.

Answer 4

according to documents obtained from the pentagon, 44 detainees have died in US custody under questionable circumstances.

Answer 5

That person from Germany is probably named Hillary telling a lie like that!~!~!