Bush has created a global network of extra-legal and secret US prisons with thousands of inmatesGet with the program: Ghost Town Orange has already read the report. Rumsfeld hasn't read the Taguba report? Bush should fire him! Back to the quote:
"My impression is that what has been charged thus far is abuse, which I believe technically is different from torture," said Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence on Tuesday. "I don't know if it is correct to say what you just said, that torture has taken place, or that there's been a conviction for torture. And therefore I'm not going to address the torture word."
He confessed he had still not read the March 9 report by Major General Antonio Taguba on "abuse" at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Some highlights: " ... pouring cold water on naked detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape ... sodomising a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick ... "If the Bushites keep power, this sort of talk will be called "premature anti-fascism;" we're not allowed to criticize our dear leaders until the "war on terror" has been won. Mr. Blumenthal worked at the White House in the good old days (i.e., when Bill Clinton was President.)
The same day that Rumsfeld added his contribution to the history of Orwellian statements by high officials, the Senate armed services committee was briefed behind closed doors for the first time not only about Abu Ghraib, but about military and CIA prisons in Afghanistan. It learned of the deaths of 25 prisoners and two murders in Iraq; that private contractors were at the centre of these lethal incidents; and that no one had been charged. The senators were given no details about the private contractors. They might as well have been fitted with hoods.
And phony Ralph Nader will claim there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans.
