Is This The US As You Imagine It To Be?

It sure ain't my America. Jesus H Crist on furlough (wow, but I nearly spelled that way wrong), what in hell is going on with the US?

The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal.

According to a secret intelligence report, the CIA offered to let Germany have access to one of its citizens, an al-Qaida suspect being held in a Moroccan cell. But the US secret agents demanded that in return, Berlin should cooperate and "avert pressure from EU" over human rights abuses in the north African country. The report describes Morocco as a "valuable partner in the fight against terrorism".

Its become a country of liars, cheaters, adulterers, frauds, pedophiles and every unsavory type of person imaginable. No wonder other countries have no respect for US.

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