Just how far has this country slipped?
Once, America was the symbol of freedom, fairness and due process. All that has ended.
We are now seen around the world as an imperialist empire and beneath the Darth Vader mask worn by the leader of the U. S. Storm Troopers is scrawny little George W. Bush.
Now we hear that the German government has issued arrest warrants for 13 U.S. CIA agents who Germany accuses of kidnapping a German citizen in 2003. The standard definition of a terrorist organization is "a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals." The CIA, under the Bush Administration, has come dangerously close to meeting that definition.
According to the German government, Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese ancestry, was abducted by CIA agents in the Macedonian capital Skopje on New Year's eve 2003 and flown to a jail in Afghanistan where he was interrogated, beaten and tortured during a five-month ordeal. Al-Masri was freed in Albania in May 2004 after the CIA found out that they had abducted the wrong person.
Reality Check: The President of the United States has humiliated our country, destroyed our international good will, reduced our nation to the level of kidnappers and torturers and, by so doing, invited renewed and even more violent attacks on our nation ... which will almost without doubt ... occur soon.
Thanks a lot, George Bush.
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