Torture under the George W. Bush administration: is it a human rights issue?

[Boojatta]

Poll question: Torture under the George W. Bush administration: is it a human rights issue?

[saltpoint]

1. Strong poll, Boojatta, because it puts the question as clearly as it can

be put for the progressive community to bring pressure to bear against Kit Bond and many other Republicans who desperately want the issue cast in "national security" terms or in other terms.

They do not want to see the media running similar polls. The cries of the detainees remain loud in the ears of the world and those in the Bush administration who authorized violence against others want this debate to go away.

At the very least they want to control the terms, and if progressives insist that torture is violence against other humans, they will be unable to exert any significant control over the debate.

As well, some of them may land in jail.

Strong stuff, necessary stuff, timely stuff. Thank you.

[LakeSamish706]

2. Torture should not even enter the scope of Human Rights.... Human beings...

do not subject other Human beings to the kind of crap that the Bush Administration did so callously. So one asks oneself if what the Bush Administration did would be considered to be main stream behavior for any Human being, and the answer is categorical no...

[stillcool]

3. For everyone but the Bush Administration...

for them it is 'their' sole right to institute a torture policy, whereby the United States can torture anyone, anywhere in the world, for any reason.