"Please sir, help me"
From the left-wing Raw Story:
Democrats are moving aggressively to push for a congressional investigation into prisoner abuse abroad, RAW STORY has learned. In a release Friday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), ranking member on the House Committee for Government Reform, introduced legislation to create a committee to investigate prisoner abuse.The move appears to have broad backing from all sides of the Democratic House caucus, including the Democrats' liberal and moderate leaders in the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
According to the release itself, the legislation would "create a House select committee to investigate the abuses of detainees held in U.S. custody in connection with the war in Iraq and the global war on terrorism. The resolution would charge a bipartisan group of 14 Members with thoroughly investigating evidence of detainee abuse and torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay."
If the Democrats want to investigate prisoner abuse, why not start at home? American citizens -- especially young, small framed males, many of whom are guilty of nothing more than smoking pot -- are experiencing horrific abuse right under our own noses. (Heart wrenching video here.) Admittedly, the rape of our young doesn't provide the opportunity for grandstanding and America-bashing that Democrats can get from examining the delicate sensibilities of Al-Qaeda terrorists held at Guantanamo, but that makes it no less deserving of congressional attention.
(Thanks to Talk Left.)