A Typical Day of News Under George W. Bush

A compilation of the day's news from Truthout:

American Tortured in Iraq Sues Rumsfeld
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907J.shtml
Donald Vance was falsely accused by the US military of aiding terrorists. He was held without charge for more than three months in a high-security prison in Iraq, and subjected to psychological torture day and night without legal counsel or even a phone call to his family. On Wednesday, the former private security contractor was honored for his ordeal and for speaking out against the incident. In Washington, Vance received the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named in memory of Army helicopter gunner Ron Ridenhour, who struggled to bring the horrific mass murders at My Lai to the attention of Congress and the Pentagon during the Vietnam War.

Details of Shocking US Missteps in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907K.shtml
In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the US occupation's "shocking" mismanagement of his country. A performance so bad that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators." "The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order," Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of Iraq," newly published by Yale University Press.

10 US Troops Die in Iraq; Six on Sunday
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907L.shtml
Among the 10 US deaths announced Sunday were three soldiers killed by a roadside bomb while patrolling south of Baghdad; one killed in an attack south of the capital; and two, who died of combat wounds sustained north of the capital in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces. On Saturday, the military said, another four US soldiers were killed in an explosion near their vehicle in Diyala. At least 3,280 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war.

Iraq War Protester Marches to Bush's Ranch
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907M.shtml
Iraq war protester Cindy Sheehan urged Bush to "end this madness" in Iraq on Friday in a march toward Bush's ranch. Sheehan, a vocal protester of the war since her soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, also expressed disappointment with Democrats in charge of the US Congress for failing to stop the war.

Robert Parry | Bush/Cheney Still Lie With Abandon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907N.shtml
Robert Parry writes, "What makes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney such extraordinary threats to the future of American democracy is their readiness to tell half-truths and outright lies consistently without any apparent fear of accountability."

The New York Times | Another Layer of Scandal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907O.shtml
"As Congress investigates the politicization of the United States attorney offices by the Bush administration, it should review the extraordinary events the other day in a federal courtroom in Wisconsin. The case involved Georgia Thompson, a state employee sent to prison on the flimsiest of corruption charges just as her boss, a Democrat, was fighting off a Republican challenger," writes the New York Times.

US Prisons in Iraq Are Breeding Ground for Extremists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907P.shtml
US-run detention camps in Iraq have become a breeding ground for extremists, where Islamic militants recruit and train supporters. Prisons have long served as an incubator for radicals, and mass roundups by the US military after the 2003 invasion are now blamed for antagonizing Iraq's Sunni Arab population and feeding the insurgency.