Torture Is TORTURE!!!

* Guantanamo man tells of 'torture' *
A Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo since 2002 criticises the US regime at the military camp, in a rare BBC interview.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/americas/4769604.stmcc

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As one who had the horrors of WW2 Nazi and Japanese abuses of persons engraved in my consciousness as a very young child, I am appalled by the perpetration of torture (with always laughing Rumsfeld) by my own country. I gather that the word "torture" is freely being used in news reports around the world in place of the euphemisms substituted here even by our responsible journals. Needess to say such atrocities both place our own at risk and offer justifications to the worst of regimes out there to use this one of two non-derogable (no exceptions allowed) abuses of human rights (the other being slavery). Where are the protesters -- particularly among us faculty who know of such things? Ed Kent
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