Is this what Jesus wants? Radiation, napalm and torture

There is so much that's deeply immoral about the Iraqnam Bushwar that it's difficult to know where to start. Apart from the underlying outrage, the destruction of the country resulting in daily suffering only made worse by Bush's favorite profiteers and their venal incompetence at "reconstruction," the destruction specifically of medical facilities, and on and on... there are the weapons. The use of depleted uranium is documented, which is nothing less than stealth nuclear war, subjecting that land and its people to radiation essentially forever. Now charges are surfacing of the use of napalm, specifically in Fallujah. It's becoming a political issue in Great Britian, raised on the floor of the House of Commons.

Then there is the continuing story of torture and abuse as policy. The following is from today's New York Times, with a link to the full story. The "charge" referred to is of practices amounting to torture at Guantanamo. This is our Christian government's response:

A report in The New York Times on Tuesday said the International Committee of the Red Cross made the charges after a visit in June by a team of relief workers that included medical personnel. A memorandum based on the report and obtained by The Times said the Red Cross believed that doctors and other medical personnel at Guantánamo were assisting in the planning of interrogations in what was described as "a flagrant violation of medical ethics."

The Pentagon on Tuesday denied that its forces at Guantánamo engaged in torture and said the detainees there, who now number about 550, were treated humanely.

Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a news conference in Indianapolis on Tuesday, dismissed accusations that the tactics amounted to torture.

"We certainly don't think it's torture," General Myers said before delivering a speech to the Economic Club of Indianapolis, according to the Web site of The Indianapolis Star. "Let's not forget the kind of people we have down there," he said. "These are the people that don't know any moral values."

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