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The article begins: "The UN has called on Barack Obama to order a full investigation of US forces' involvement in human rights abuses in Iraq after a massive leak of military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes."

US soldiers guard Iraqi detainees, 10/23/10. (photo: Jehad Nga/Corbis)
US soldiers guard Iraqi detainees, 10/23/10. (photo: Jehad Nga/Corbis)

 

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+29 # bobpomeroy 2010-10-23 09:47
Bring it on. I don't pay taxes for torture. We cannot regain our goal of being the shining city on the hill by ignoring these problems. Governmental credibility is our biggest domestic political problem.
 
 
+27 # Van. Island 2010-10-23 09:51
Hilary Clinton is upset about these leaks because they may endanger American and Afghan lives ? My foot this is the reason. A very nasty cruel side of American Administrations , past and present, and their military is exposed to the American public and the whole world. This President and George Bush should be hanging their heads in shame. What kind of person takes a drill & uses it to torture a small child in order to get the parents to talk. What are these troops going to be like when they return home. The training of troops strives to dehumanizes the enemy,and desensitizes these troops, exposes them to DU which does brain damage and then expects them to behave normally and be good citizens when they come home. This is not going to happen. There are war criminals here and they should include those at the very top such as Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld.
 
 
+4 # Foxtrottango 2010-10-23 10:28
Appointing Hilary Clinton for the job that she cannot handle was strickly political. She would have better at president (perhaps that is why Obama picked her to get her out of the way) than Secretary of State.

But than again, it's a live and learn world, isn't it? But the question is, have the Obama Administration learn anything at all?
 
 
+11 # Activista 2010-10-23 14:23
liary Clinton is marching under the AIPAC drums - for the Iran War - for the expansion of Great Israel - not strategic interest of US. Pentagon should be declared by UN as a terorist organization - and abolished.
 
 
+8 # bl8ant 2010-10-24 10:19
and what is scarier is that these damaged psychotic soldiers are going to come home as the real terrorists...the damages of PTSD and betrayal of core values and self respect, often are too confusing and so we have the suicide count higher than the death count in the case of this illegal war with Iraq
 
 
+13 # Foxtrottango 2010-10-23 10:24
It's a damn shame that the Administration couldn't, didn't or wouldn't the guts to wash the shame those American war criminals create for our nation. Instead it took a body of civilized nations to demand what we Americans have been demanding ever since GWB and his Administration were kicked out of the White House and Congress to boot.

President Obama is nothing but a weakling or an apologist or have surrounded himself with political cowards and cowardice in the face of the enemy.

Go UN, go! The American people are behind you.
 
 
+4 # hasapiko 2010-10-25 09:44
The American people are NOT behind this effort. There has NEVER in the history of the US been any sustained support for investigating OUR war crimes. We make a fuss over every unborn American fetus but we don't give a rat's ass for thousands upon thousands - millions actually - of little brown-skinned people murdered by our surrogates and by us is the bottom line of American culture. Native Americans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laocians, Central Americans and now Iraqis and Afghans and I’ve probably missed a few. Therefore this story too will die. I give it two weeks max.
 
 
+23 # Archie1954 2010-10-23 10:39
I feel sick at heart after reading this article. How sociopathic and immoral can a state become when it feels free to kill and destroy with impunity, even to the point of shooting a little girl in a yellow dress. I am totally depressed and suffering from the feeling that somehow I am party responsible for such evil because my country, although not part of the Iraqi coalition did not actively oppose it for political reasons. Americans to me are no better than the evil empire of the Soviets during the height of the cold war and perhaps even much worse, because individual citizens have the ability in the US to change governments where the Soviet citizens did not.
 
 
+6 # fred 2010-10-23 11:07
Ha, ha, ha. Brave O. start an investigation? He well palm it off on his equally brave Attorney General from where it will never be heard of again.

American exceptionalism! ha, ha, ha!
 
 
+12 # Edgar Valderrama 2010-10-23 11:38
Any claim this country might have had to moral superiority is long dead; now we should worry about being morally inferior.
 
 
+20 # bjw 2010-10-23 12:43
Americans for the most part have been immunized from reports such as these by the constant noise of the propaganda machine. They cannot process this kind of news. They have plenty to worry about with job worries, mortgage worries and most important of all, who will win the World Series.

It is the rest of the world that will pay close attention and wonder what happened to this country that not so long ago was the sole surviving superpower. Americans have become experts good at projecting their moral lapses onto everyone but themselves. "They made us do it. We had no choice." Just the same way wife beaters can never admit they have a problem, we will point to our bruised knuckles and tell the judge, "See what she did to me when I had to hit her."
 
 
+17 # Daniel Fletcher 2010-10-23 14:21
Wikileaks revealing the truth was revolutionary. Now, we must be revolutionary in an unrelenting demand that Washington be unilaterally responsive to the UN's demands to investigate. Anything short of this confirms our role as a terrorist state, a rogue nation. And we must take this a step further. As a revolutionary act we must demand prosecutions of these crimes and I do mean prosecuting as treason no less, the administration that lied us into this war. Our very redemption as a nation depends on this. Our salvation as a just and allegedly noble country is intimately connected to our aspiring overtly toward justice. The world knows us for who we are and if we don't rectify the extraordinary abuses of our power, what power we have can be taken away. We are NOT too big to fail. China herself need simply dump US Treasury notes/bonds and our economy will be destroyed. The larger world in many ways can destroy us. It is in our interests to do a major sea change and bring our criminals to trial.
 
 
+6 # Activista 2010-10-23 17:34
we must be revolutionary:
Daniel write the manifesto and circulate it on the Internet, then we will go to the street. We can magnify the message - we have the means - it will grow exponentially.
20 year old idiot can capture 500 million "Facebook membership hits 500 million" like him on Facebook - we can do better. After 8 years of Bush - we look like Nazi Germany in 1945 to the rest of the World - and nothing less than Norinberg type trial will do. First thing is to dismantle Pentagon ...
 
 
+6 # Daniel Fletcher 2010-10-24 01:44
By God I will. I've had my fill. I'm not going to be haphazard about it. I've got resources to consult, BUT...this is a task that has to be done. And it doesn't have to depend on my manifesto alone, but I will write it and if others step forward to craft a better version I will endorse it. The point is simply this: if all that comes of it is a massive and viral endorsement...if it is crafted well enough to provided positive response numbers, it will at least accomplish the task of broadcasting to the world that a significant number of Americans do NOT endorse the blatant miscarraige of justice which has become the sine qua non of American foreign policy. How dare we stand by passively in the face of the most egregious violations of law ever practiced by OUR U.S. government. I don't care how the law is parsed: when torture and renditions and unprovoked and aggressive wars against nations based on lies becomes okay, we are in a hell in which revolution becomes a duty.
 
 
0 # Jen 2010-10-31 06:16
[quote name=".... we are in a hell in which revolution becomes a duty.

I agree we must push Obama to follow the wishes the UN and investigate the evil that has been revealed through the Iraq Logs. It should have begun during the Bush Admin with Impeachment hearings. We should still exercise that option IMO.

The Constitution still provides us with redress of grievances and we, the people, should take full advantage of these tools to ensure the torturers are brought to justice. Tearing down the house just to get the contract to rebuild it is the way of those who would destroy the progress we have made as a nation.
 
 
+14 # billnbillieskid 2010-10-23 14:57
If God is just, the guilty parties (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Gingrich, Rice, Ashcroft et al,) WILL at last be brought to the Bar to answer for their crimes against Humanity. Why President Obama has given them all a free pass on this baffles me. I know he is focused on the future, but, if you don't address the wrongs of the past, they are liable to be repeated by future Administrations . The Industrial Military Complex must also answer for hiring thugs and murderers who acted with impunity, trashing our reputation as leaders in a free and JUST Society. Let's see Halliburton, Blackwater and their cronies also belly up to the Bar and answer for their grievous crimes against innocent civilians.
 
 
+15 # KK 2010-10-23 15:01
This will go down in the history as our Rogue Regime's Legacy! I thought only Saddam used to torture Iraqi Civilians.. They drained our treasury (tax $$) to commit these atrocities on helpless innocent civilians? And expected to be greeted with Flowers, Garlands & Kababs!!
 
 
+13 # genierae 2010-10-23 15:43
It was the day before "shock and awe", and there was a video on television of some Iraqi children playing in a Baghdad park. The scene was so sweet and innocent, and I sat there and watched, so angry and frustrated. Knowing that evil was about to strike, I never felt so helpless in my life. I have never forgotten, and now another memory, a little girl in a yellow dress, playing in the street.
 
 
+7 # Daniel Fletcher 2010-10-24 01:48
Quoting
It was the day before "shock and awe", and there was a video on television of some Iraqi children playing in a Baghdad park. The scene was so sweet and innocent, and I sat there and watched, so angry and frustrated. Knowing that evil was about to strike, I never felt so helpless in my life. I have never forgotten, and now another memory, a little girl in a yellow dress, playing in the street.

genierae, my heart is broken. Please endorse any and all attempts to bring these animals to justice. I know you will, but this is a turning point we must address. Your sugestions are requested.
 
 
+8 # Joseph Stockett 2010-10-23 16:42
War crimes, war crimes, and more war crimes. George W. Bush makes Adolf Hitler look like a civilized leader. I saw that smirking clown in the news today bragging about his new book. Burn his book and lock him up in a cell for the rest of his life with stacks of Wikileak documents. Make Bush eat Wikileaks paper.
 
 
+2 # Activista 2010-10-23 22:53
Quoting
War crimes, war crimes, and more war crimes. George W. Bush makes Adolf Hitler look like a civilized leader. I saw that smirking clown in the news today bragging about his new book. and lock him up in a cell for the rest of his life with stacks of Wikileak documents. Make Bush eat Wikileaks paper.

Mein Kampf by Bush - Tea Party can not wait ..
 
 
+8 # arthur 2010-10-23 17:33
Ever hear of Mai Lai? Atrocities are Nothing new with the American military and their leaders. Look at what Bush and his fellow criminals did to his fellow citizens on 9/11 .nano thermite doesn't lie . Having drills, ignoring warning from the intelligence agencies, having our jet interceptors staND DOWN. AN INSIDE JOB FOR OIL PROFITS. Illegal torture fits right in .Spying on the American people. A pattern of criminality by these arrogant, evil ,scum . Still unaccountable for their crimes. Thanks to Obama . He will resist this investigation also.
 
 
+10 # Sally Shaw 2010-10-23 19:08
A little girl in a yellow dress. A wedding party, somewhere near the border with Syria. A game of marbles played in sand, a missile strike, nothing left but a few odd shoes. Bush hiding under his desk, looking for the WMD. Obama promising an end to the lies, an end to the war, an end to Guantanamo. The coalition of none. The confiscation of the oil fields and the handoff to Exxon-Mobil and friends. The Pentagon "losing" track of 4 trillion dollars of taxpayer money. No accounting. Dick Cheney saying : "the order still stands" as the planes approach the World Trade Center. No investigation, no truth commission, no jail time, nothing but childrens' blood running into the sand. I have no country.
 
 
+6 # Daniel Fletcher 2010-10-24 01:53
A revolutionary manifesto, and please don't see this as an endorsement of violence, it won't be, is coming. Respond. Participate. Damn it, if nothing else will mobilize the people I will conclude with you that I have no country. The yearning for justice is growing in the people. Listen to it. When the time comes, participate. It's time for a mass movemnt. As the rising crest comes your way, swim with it for God's sake. Please.
 
 
+3 # kgb 2010-10-24 03:24
Sally, You cannot take all that weight on your shoulders. It is too much. Try to look for happier themes. Even if what you say is all true, please do focus on our Mother Nature and her beauty, and do yoga, or something for yourself and your inner life. Your note is heartfelt but one cannot bear this weight. Let the light begin with you, Sally, and leave the darkness to itself.
 
 
+10 # joyfulsunrise 2010-10-23 20:34
All under the cloak of Christianity ~~~
Heartbreaking~
 
 
+4 # Activista 2010-10-23 23:03
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All under the cloak of Christianity ~~~
Heartbreaking~

ROME – Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned to Rome by the pope demanded on Saturday that Israel accept UN resolutions calling for an end to its “occupation” of Arab lands.
.. the bishops also told Israel it shouldn’t use the Bible to justify “injustices” against the Palestinians
www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=192474
missed that in today Google "news" ...
 
 
+7 # Mertze 2010-10-23 21:16
We must have justice at least for my sake. I travel on occasion and find myself telling others that I am Canadian just to feel a bit safer.
 
 
+4 # Marty Lee 2010-10-25 10:26
Be sure to watch WAR MADE EASY. It deals with the media's complicity in our government's dis-information campaigns and details how current military excursions are a continuation of U.S. foreign policy post WWII.
 
 
0 # Buckwheat 2010-11-29 06:32
Olin Winchester made triple profits by supplying ammunition to back the military attack, and the lengthy ongoing occupation of Iraq by US forces. The CEO of Olin is Joseph D. Rupp. President Obamma is trying to end the war in Iraq which most likely will reduce ammunition sales and cut into company profits. Recently Olin announced that it will be moving 1000 Winchester jobs down south to Mississippi to employ non-union workers at less wages to keep Olin's profits up. Evidently Olin must feel that without a continuing war like the one in Iraq that they just can not make enough money by staying in Illinois where they now are currently located. The workers current contract expires next year, so in December 2011 workers will be fearful of losing their new homes, new cars, new boats, new motorcycles, new stereos, & new HDTV's. These many workers will soon have to be troubled with suffering the bothersome stress of job searches until they can find another one again. It is sad that these workers who profited so greatly along with Olin Winchester during the Iraq war may have to suffer these horrible inconveniences. I guess as you can see by this it is definitely not a fair world anymore.
 

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