After torturing David Hicks for 5 years the USA finally says it is almost ready to lay fresh charges against him.
Hicks, who was callously abandoned to his fate by the Australian government after all other US allies in the misguided war against Iraq had *their* captured citizens returned, has been ‘interrogated’ by methods the Nazis wouldn’t have been unfamiliar with.
There is of course not a hope in hell he’ll be acquitted of any of the charges that may eventually be laid. After all this time to acquit him would make the Bush administration look even worse than they already do… and that us saying something!
The entire episode has already been an appalling travesty of justice and is set to be a lasting blot on the administrations of both George Bush *and* John Howard.
A government that throws its citezens to the wolves is not one that gets lasting respect.This is the sort of episode you don’t forget.
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