The New America
They call apparently call them “extraordinary renditions“ – what it amounts to is covert US agents kidnapping people from other democratic countries and wisking them off for torture or interrogation… as we’ve said before, there is nothing that cannot be done when the name of the “War on Terror”; it is now almost a sacred cow south of the border.
A friend is currently reading Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” (a personal favorite of mine) and loving it – I wonder…. had the book been published after the start of Bush’s “War on Terror” if that name too would have achieved deity status along with the other new American Gods of credit, cable TV, etc., that Gaiman wrote of?
It’s interesting that the seizure described in this article was carried out in Italy, ostensibly one of Bush’s closest allies, against the will of the Italian government.
This is the Bush doctrine. America will simply not allows its actions to be limited by any law, treaty or agreement: those are for other people.