When one thinks of McCain in prison in Vietnam, one realises he got there for doing exactly the same thing that David Hicks was possibly considered he might have thought about--dropping bombs randomly, 30 tonnes at a time, on innocent civilians in an undeclared war that had absolutely no rational basis against a country that was no threat to the USA. McCain was as much a terrorist as any Moslem extremist, OKAY-he was OUR terrorist and that makes it okay, and he shouldn't have gone to jail. Sorry, I had forgotten.

We all fear for Obamas safety. Not from Islamic Fundamentalist but from his countries own establishment. A country that resorts to such depths regarding torture, agent orange, Depleteted uranium, cluster bombs, propping up fascists governments they would stoop to assasinate their own President.

Don't worry. As history has shown unequivocally, assassination of Presidents is a natural and normal part of American culture. They know how to elect another one.

Deeprkopps - is your head in the sand completely?

Look at The war on Democracy by John Pilger for a history of CIA led torture in Latin America.

And the rest!

torture? When America's neo-cons have terrorized whole nations do you expect from them to respect human or prisoners rights? USA not only use any kind of torture to collect information from suspects but if they are not happy with their results they sent the suspects to other countries, famous for their brutality as Egypt. The problem with USA is that they do not torture only extremists but many times innocent people who have nothing to do with terrorists. I remind the Canadian Muslim Businessman who was in California on 11 September for Business, abducted from CIA and tortured for long time in USA without results, he did not know anything about terrorists, at the end CIA send him to Syria for farther torture and interrogation. At the end he cleaned his name in Canadian courts but he suffer very hard.
There are many totally innocent people who abducted and tortured hard, to find at the end they was innocent.
The war against terrors in high degree became war against Muslims, war against migrants, but MAINLY war against Human Rights, including the turture.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

There is a good article from Basil Fernando, president from the Asia Human Commission about the freedom of Torture in the web address http://www.alrc.net/doc/mainfile.php/documents/457/
Please read it.
The future opportunities for the eradication of torture and proliferation of universal human rights within the current global discourse
(A presentation for the International Seminar on Freedom from Torture – Challenges we face for the rehabilitation and prevention on the occasion on the 25th anniversary of the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT), October 30, 2007)
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide