Comments on: Nuremberg Prosecutor Talks About Guantanamo Trials http://donklephant.com/2007/06/12/nuremberg-prosecutor-talks-about-guantanamo-trials/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:28:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jeremy http://donklephant.com/2007/06/12/nuremberg-prosecutor-talks-about-guantanamo-trials/#comment-350272 Jeremy Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:13:57 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/06/12/nuremberg-prosecutor-talks-about-guantanamo-trials/#comment-350272 I especially love those old clips from the Korean War, the U.S. media showed Americans bound and tortured. There was nothing but disgust for such inhumane acts. There's countless cases just like these where the U.S. holds up an example of a flagrant act against humanity during times of war. Fast forward to the latest Iraq War and it is not other countries who are engaging in these utterly indefensible acts but it is us. Despite the repeated assurances given by the president that "we do not torture" there is a mountain of evidence that proves otherwise. America for all intents and purposes was the champion of the Geneva Conventions--the torchbearer for human rights. Taking anyone you are suspicious of off the "battlefield" and making them disappear is something you would have expected Soviet Russia to do, something Soviet China still does. Everything America stood for in terms of due process and human rights protector is gone! We can now proudly lump ourselves in the same category as our human rights violator leader China. When American looks to reprimand and condemn the clear human rights violations of China, China rightfully so, can now say "oh, but what about you? does America not torture?" Everything we have worked so hard for has vanished under a sick hubris and an utter disrespect for the values America is by obligation supposed to maintain. Our credibility is arguably destroyed, and it's likely to remain that way for a very long time. I especially love those old clips from the Korean War, the U.S. media showed Americans bound and tortured. There was nothing but disgust for such inhumane acts. There’s countless cases just like these where the U.S. holds up an example of a flagrant act against humanity during times of war. Fast forward to the latest Iraq War and it is not other countries who are engaging in these utterly indefensible acts but it is us.

Despite the repeated assurances given by the president that “we do not torture” there is a mountain of evidence that proves otherwise.
America for all intents and purposes was the champion of the Geneva Conventions–the torchbearer for human rights.

Taking anyone you are suspicious of off the “battlefield” and making them disappear is something you would have expected Soviet Russia to do, something Soviet China still does.

Everything America stood for in terms of due process and human rights protector is gone! We can now proudly lump ourselves in the same category as our human rights violator leader China. When American looks to reprimand and condemn the clear human rights violations of China, China rightfully so, can now say “oh, but
what about you? does America not torture?” Everything we have worked so hard for has vanished under a sick hubris and an utter
disrespect for the values America is by obligation supposed to maintain. Our credibility is arguably destroyed, and it’s likely to remain that way for a very long time.

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