Posted by 2courtneyb on September 2, 2009 at 4:52pm
Since 2001 it has been said that torture of prisoners has taken place in Guantanamo Bay Prison in the Philippians. Former president George W. Bush signed a presidential order that said that the military could imprison anybody who was not a U.S citizen that he thought could be associated with terrorism. Bush said that the prisoners were not covered under the protection under the Geneva Conventions. Which means that they weren’t protected so the military could treat them however they wanted to and keep them as long as they wanted to. Some people want the policy to stay the way it is because they are afraid of the terrorists. Other people want it to stop because it is not humane.Abu Gharib in Iraq is another place where there is alleged torture. American citizens started hearing about it in 2004 when the New Yorker magazine had a story. It talked about the torture of the prisoners and that 90% of the people kept in Abu Gharib in Baghdad Iraq were likely to be innocent. 60 Minutes the TV show also had a story about this prison. At the time President Bush said that this was not usually the way the U.S army operated.Dick Cheney, the former vice president, says it’s wrong for the new president (Obama) to look into the Bush presidency. He thinks it makes it a political issue of a presidential policy to bring it up. Cheney says that the White House wants to investigate, but they really aren’t that interested. They are choosing to “look forward, not back”.
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