The United States and Torture

"A US Army report into Abu Ghraib notes that, since 2001, there have been five cases around the world of ‘detainee deaths as a result of abuse by US personnel’"

Just saw a documentary on Channel 4 here in the UK, about abuse of prisoners in the United States. There is an excellent website here.

We need to ensure all people are treated as human beings. There was a tendency at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal to dismiss it as the work of a "few bad apples" who were "unamerican". This is untrue and the abuses at Abu Ghraib fit a pattern of abuse that have been committed for years and are at their most extreme under George W Bush.