Inhofe's feedback form is at
http://inhofe.senate.gov/contactus.htm
Jeremy: the US is not universally regarded as a democracy. It's corrupted: where is universal health care, that I'm told the majority wants. Business rules. See also Bush's election itself, and the process of selection. Even the death penalty disqualifies it already with respect to the ideals of democracy.
Education of the US military in Human Rights seems called for. Starting at the very top.
But cut the size of the military down by 90% first or so.
I find it amazing how the public gets upset, how the US Congress actually gets involved as soon as the media publishes real news. I think it's rather obvious that newspapers and TV could report on other crimes of the US government in the same way, and lots of them - Afghanistan, Iraq I, Iraq II, Haiti, Israel, ... were to stop with this list.
So I am told the US is in some kind of collective crisis over this torture case. Meaning, people are questioning their nation or so.
I get this from Der Spiegel, I don't live in the US (I think there was a reason for that..)
Is this true?? How come dropping cluster bombs in civilian areas was acceptable but this is not?? What's the difference? That's how the war in Iraq started just about a year ago. It wasn't hard to find out it goes against the Geneva Conventions
to drop cluster bombs over cities. (This is why George Bush is rightly referred to as a war criminal)
Take a look at this letter, titled "Abuse of Iraqi prisoners and the SPE parallels" from Stanford's Professor Zimbardo of Psychology. He sent it to a mailing list of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
A quote: "The situational analysis says the barrel of war is filled with vinegar that will transform good cucumbers into sour pickles and will always do it to make the majority of good people, men and women, into perpetrators of evil, where there is: anonymity-deindividuation, dehumanization, secrecy, diffusion of responsibility, social modeling, big power differentials, frustration, feelings of revenge,obedience to authority, lack of supervision that conveys a sense of permissiveness."
The letter is at
http://www.stolaf.edu/cgi-bin/mailarchivesearch.pl?directory=/home/www/people/huff/SPSP&listname=archive04&location=2581809
Surely dropping cluster bombs was as scandalous.
That happened a year ago in Iraq, earlier in Afghanistan.
War crimes of our times. Thanks USA.
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