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[Dr Nasir Khan] Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney's Torture and ...: Andy Worthington, The Huffington Post, March 21, 2010. Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, .

[Snapler] Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney's Torture and ...: Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, even though that war was based on torture and lies. guantamo, Guantanamo, illegal invasion, indefinite detention without charge, invasion, invasion of iraq, Iraq, magic wand, New York, Obama, perpetual war, Polly Nash, president, U.S., War, war in afghanistan, Washington ”” Andy Worthington @ 4:32 am .

[Andy Worthington] What Torture Is, and Why It's Illegal and Not “Poor Judgment ...: [...] Some activists were still burnt out from campaigning for Barack Obama, others thought the new President had waved a magic wand and miraculously cured all America’s ills, while others, to the right of common sense and decency, were beginning to mobilize in opposition to a President who, to be frank, should have been more of a disappointment to those who thought that “hope” and “change” might mean something than to those who supported the Bush administration’s view of the world. Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, endorsed indefinite detention without charge or trial for prisoners at Guantánamo, and shielded Bush administration officials and lawyers from calls for their prosecution for turning America into a nation with secret prisons, an extraordinary rendition program, and a detention policy for terror suspects based on the use of torture.

[Ten Percent] In Speaking, To Listen « Ten Percent: The jury heard that the Waihopai Echelon spy base is New Zealand’s largest contribution to the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. The ongoing war has resulted in horrific war crimes, including more than one million dead Iraqi civilians, torture, and permanent poisoning of parts of Iraq by the use of depleted uranium munitions.

[Andy Worthington] Defending Moazzam Begg and Amnesty International | Andy Worthington: as for the times online they no longer allow people to give their comments if defending mozzam,they only screen those comments who are unfairly against mozzam, i think that David Aaronovitch calling a man who suffered 3 years of illegal inprisonment and brutal treatments in the hands of the us army and then who became a loud voice for “cry justice” rising awarness about human rights violations taking place in guantanamo and elsewhere.he is calling him just a “poster boy”and calling george galloway who wanted to end the suffering of one and half million people in gazza and who ownes the respect of millions of people aroud the world for his humanitarian efforts.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | What Torture Is and Why It's Illegal and Not ...: If some case law precedent(s) is and/or are made, and/or some Congressional bill(s) is and/or are passed into "law", making torture supposedly "legal", it would be UNconstitutional because it would contradict other parts and/or Amendments of the Constitution, Articles of the Bill of Rights, other domestic laws that are joined to the Constitution through the Supremacy Clause, as well as international treaties and laws that are also joined to the Constitution through the Supremacy Clause, and are therefore ALL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, which make torture completely illegal and/or unlawful; unless, of course, the lawmakers overturned those previous Amendments of the Constitution, Articles of the Bill of Rights, and other laws through that new Amendment and other new Congressional bills passed into "law".

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