Torture – American Style
27 February 2008
Anything Goes: “Taxi to the Dark Side”
By Cynthia Fuchs
They’re a very frail people and I was surprised it had taken that long for one of ‘em to die in our custody.
—Pfc. Damien Corsetti, Military Intelligence, Bagram
If the FBI had felt that there was a case to answer for, they wouldn’t have taken me into Bagram where I was held, heard the sounds of a woman screaming next door, had me hogtied and threatened to send me to Egypt in order to get me to sign this.
—Moazzam Begg, Now 2006 July 28
“Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world.
In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people.
We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence.
If we are passive in the face of America’s official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.”
- Mark Hertzgaard
And from the ‘War Hero” tortured in the Viet Nam War, we
hear: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran
