By Donikian
Bush Killed my Son, Said Cindy Sheehan
Madrid, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) "My son Casey was killed by Bush and his insane, cruel and arrogant foreign policy", denounced Cindy Sheehan, a brave mother who does not forgive The US President for causing a war based on lies.
Sheehan, a symbol of the current anti warmongering, gave a heartbreaking interview Tuesday to a journalist from the Spanish newspaper El Pais, in which she warns the president he is not listening to those opposing the war against Iraq.
The driving force behind Sheehan's tireless activity is her son Casey, killed in Iraq at the age of 24. He was part of a team in charge of finding out the existence of weapons of mass destruction that served to justify the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Cindy, as everybody calls her, assured in the interview that "The Bush Administration has undervalued our capacity to call the people, a whole movement saying what nobody dares to say: that this war was a mistake".
"I am accused of being unpatriotic because I want to bring the troops home, and I say: it is a patriotic obligation to prevent a country from its government", stated the newspaper which recalled that her son died on August 4 2004 because of a lie.
"It is been proved that this war was based on lies and betrayals. My son died because of a lie, the only one way to help our young boys is to take them out of there and bring them back home safe", the woman insisted.
She said her heartbreak and sorrow can only be lessened when she knows there will not be other women suffering as she is. Cindy considers that 1862 mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq are too many broken hearts.
"My son Casey was murdered by Bush and his insane, cruel and arrogant policy. He said he had died for a noble cause. I would really like to know what this noble cause is about, I would like him to explain that," the mother demanded.
"This is an immoral and illegal war. Our duty as human beings with morals is to fight it with all our strength. I do not want Bush to justify his death, his murder, his imperialist foreign policy with my son's blood and honor," she said.
"I want Bush to honor him by withdrawing the troops from Iraq and bringing them back home immediately", she concluded without taking a breath in her recital of her reasons.
By Nestor Nunez
Taken from AIN
August 17, 2005
The scandal resulting from human rights violations by US prison guards at the illegally occupied US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba reminds one of a snow ball rolling down a mountain.
The growing and non-stop denunciations of the continued torture and insults against the Muslim faith, as well as other atrocities, have shaken the international community on more than one occasion. However, some powerful nations - such those in the European Union - despite having their citizens imprisoned in the US enclave, have not had the decency to criticize their American ally.
The truth is that hundreds of alleged enemy combatants, who the White House accuse of being terrorists, are packed into the military base with heads covered, chained and caged without them being provided the most basic necessities for human existence.
The sadistic practices that were used on the prisoners were later perfected in the prisons of occupied Iraqi and in the clandestine prisons that George W. Bush maintains in various parts of the world.
The Guantanamo drama cannot continue. Recently US soldiers revealed to legal bodies the fact that the alleged legal process through which some of the prisoners are being channelled is nothing more than a joke.
These same officials, who were approached by the attorneys of various prisoners, said the so-called justice system that is applied at the US naval base against the foreign prisoners is a fraud.
All this functions within a singular system that accuses, produces evidence, judges and sentences, simply in order to ensure that the public believes the law to reign supreme.
For the Cuban people it is an insult for a portion of their territory is illegally occupied by the United States; Washington's chicken hawks have created this monument to dishonesty and violence.
The issue Guantanamo has been raised in the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on two consecutive occasions in order to get that international body to discuss what is happening on that military enclave in Cuban territory.
Up until now, European governments have preferred to sabotage those efforts on the side of justice by refusing to support an investigation that might seriously injure their relationship with Washington. However, the facts continue to show that Havana has been right all along.
In any case, the Bush administration and its allies are sharing the weight of this disgrace.
