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Under what other American administration were thousands of people imprisoned, sexually and physically abused, denied basic human rights, denied access by a lawyer or family members, and put into solitary confinement for months - all without even being charged with a serious crime.
During WWII all Asian immigrants were rounded up and kept in containment camps until the war was over. The only reason they didn't do it for German immigrants too was because there were just too many of them for it to be feasible.
No other president - not even Nixon - did what the George Jr admininstration condoned. We can now suspect it even encouraged... Abu Ghraib.
Maybe I'm just a cynic, but I believe that more prisoner torture than this has gone on during every war. A friend of my dad's served in Vietnam as a translator. He was originally told he'd be translating intercepted documents, transmissions, etc., but when he got over there he found out he'd be translating interrogation sessions. For over a year, he translated the pleas and screams of prisoners of war being tortured, and more damningly, he says that in that entire time, not one prisoner left the room alive.
The only difference between this and any other war is that there were digital cameras and a pesky little internet to send the proof over. Whether or not you believe it's right, this is NOT the first time America has tortured or humiliated its detainees.
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