{"id":1769,"date":"2007-05-15T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2017-05-21T00:27:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T06:27:26","slug":"senate-revisits-military-comissions-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/senate-revisits-military-comissions-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate revisits Military Comissions Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/hooded-prisoner-abu-ghraib.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/hooded-prisoner-abu-ghraib.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, 67% of the people surveyed across 25 countries disapprove of the U.S. handling of Guantanamo detainees. The Program Director explained: &#8220;The thing that comes up repeatedly is not just anger about Iraq. The common theme is hypocrisy. The reaction tends to be &#8211; You were a champion of a certain set of rules. Now you are breaking your own rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of Defense recognized this problem last month when he acknowledged that he had recommended closing Guantanamo because &#8220;there is a taint about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>America at its best is a beacon for human rights and human liberty, and that&#8217;s how we like to see ourselves. But much of the world sees us in a very different way when we fail to live up to the standards we profess. For us, the symbol of American values is the Statue of Liberty. For much of the world, it is that horrific photograph of a hooded prisoner at Abu Ghraib, standing on a box, strung up with wires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080513213009\/http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/051407R.shtml\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, 67% of the people surveyed across 25 countries disapprove of the U.S. handling of Guantanamo detainees. The Program Director explained: &#8220;The thing that comes up repeatedly is not just anger about Iraq. The common theme is hypocrisy. 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