Whether state sponsored, or sponsored by Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden or any other “imbecile”, terror is terror. It is not a decent, civilised way of reinforcing law and order or fighting against terrorism. Resorting to terror is no doubt, a sign of power, but it is not a sign of prudence, it is a clear sign of desperation, weakness, lack of vision and wisdom. Whether legalised or carried out behind the scenes, subjecting humans to various form of torture as means of interrogation can never be justified by international law, let alone by elementary human decency.
In the same way as the invasion of Iraq was “justified”, White House and Pentagon seem to use semantics and deception to justify the unjustifiable in regard to allowable torture. The latest “justification” is taking shape as the God's given exclusive rights of the U.S. administration to “obtain intelligence vital to the protection of untold thousands of American citizens” by any means. A group of military and civilian lawyers working for U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has forwarded a report, according to which the President, as commander in chief of the U.S. needs not abide by any International treaties in authorising any psychological and physical means of torture in interrogation. It seems the “care takers” or rather “under takers” of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre are running out of “innovative interrogation tactics”. The truth is that with the mounting international protest against blatant violation of international law by the U.S. in Gountanamo Bay and recently revealed number of U.S. torture camps in other countries in the world, U.S. seems to be running out of “innovative justifications” to “legalise” the unjustifiable.
Behind the closed doors in White House anything and everything even the God's Will can get a good deal of twists and turns. For the past two years Iraqi people have been getting Bush's “Insha'Allah” in thousands of packages wrapped in blood drenched rags - an estimated 50,000 of them so far. Bush's democracy packages come wrapped in the American flag as well. So far, Bush has delivered, two thousand thirty six (2036)of such packages to American people from the theatre of his holy mission in Iraq. In spite of George Bush's address to the nation on the 1st May 2003, on board USS Abraham Lincoln, in front of a huge banner which said “Mission Accomplished”, the U.S. mission in Iraq is still far from being “accomplished”, it is brutally not clear how many more human lives will take to "accomplish" this mission.
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