The use of Torture by the USA is nothing new, not some departure in theory or practice. During the US backing of the death-squads and regular military of the armed forces of El Salvador "American Advisors" trained El Salvador military torturers in all sorts of techniques. We noticed around 1979 that after the US sessions had taken place the decapitation of peasant activists, FMLN supporters etc began. The USA military trains Latin American Client states in torture at their School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Sometimes even members of the US Centre-Left seem to talk as if Obama's mere "attitude of openess" will magically dissipate the darkness of US imperialism. It will not.
While the USA has 800 military Bases circling the world, while it leads nuclear-tipped NATO, and while it is hand-in-glove with its 50 year old policy of anti-Palestinian, pro-Israeli repression, the US state remains on the objective level an enemy of Humanity.
If the US has renounced its imperial status and wants to return as a republic among other countries in the family of nations, it must show its change of ideology by charging Bush and Cheney, Rice and the White House Lawyers with Crimes against Human Rights and Crimes of War. This "Change" would actually signal to the world that you have not only "repented" but intend to "do justice" in reparation to the devastated the Iraqi nation and others. Anything less will be rightly seen as more American government spin.
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