The US has used torture for decades. All that's new is the openness
about it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1664001,00.html
By ignoring past abuses, opponents of torture are in danger of pushing
it back into the shadows instead of abolishing it
Naomi Klein
Saturday December 10, 2005
The Guardian
It was the "Mission Accomplished" of George Bush's second term, and an
announcement of that magnitude called for a suitably dramatic location.
But what was the right backdrop for the infamous "We do not torture"
declaration? With characteristic audacity, the Bush team settled on
downtown Panama City.
It was certainly bold. An hour and a half's drive from where Bush
stood, the US military ran the notorious School of the Americas from
1946 to 1984, a sinister educational institution that, if it had a
motto, might have been "We do torture". It is here in Panama, and later
at the school's new location in Fort Benning, Georgia, where the roots
of the current torture scandals can be found.
Naomi Klein
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