The U.S. Government should denounce simulated drowning as an interrogation technique; it is as wrong as failing to denounce genocide by the Turks. There was formerly a torture known as the wind cage where a stripped naked individual was set in a cage hung outside that was too small to allow standing or sitting; and the individual was just left to starve, be bothered by insects and weather until death. Something like that might be considered human by the Bush administration perhaps if the individual was prevented from starving and the cage was rotated upside down occasionally? Why can't the Bush administration just have patience and just hold enemy combatants in a special prison in some hell like the Governager's Sacramento until the war on terror is over, or create an optional duration plus 20 years sentence to humanize the idea of indefinite arrest?

National governments may be used by elites of a transnational nature as a gloved fist to attack and purge the interests of designated groups. The United States for one is a composite mosaic of myriad people many with special interests and hidden agendas. Some may have hidden homosexual preference groups that range beyond borders that would advance butch control of domestic politics, while others may be anti-Christian surreptitiously or form alliances covertly with any sort of ungodliness in political action committees. The United States may not perpetrate genocide, yet the democide in Iraqi during the sanctions era was tolerated, and mass civilian casualties in some wars have been an occurrence. The best way must be taken-not just a plausible way. U.S. casualties in Iraq should be capped below 4000 dead.

Historically groups have perpetrated genocide upon other groups as a reason for being for-themselves and have used various adverse interests as targets of blame. Turkey was one such nation that murdered masses of Armenians Christian The Armenian genocide was one of the last recrudescent atrocities perpetrated by the ethos of the Ottoman Empires. Atrocities anytime are an abomination. Not just the political labels to describe the horror of mass murder, but the reality of mass murder is the evil necessarily recognized by right thinking individuals. It is awesome that the trans-nationally corrupted congress choose belatedly to 'recognize' the genocide. Minorities in the Empire were erased if recalcitrant about submission.

Today the Bush administration has a got a foot in the door in Iraq and will not seem

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